Established coronary artery disease in systemic sclerosis compared to type 2 diabetic female patients: a cross-sectional study.
Michele ColaciDilia GiuggioliAmelia SpinellaCaterina VacchiFederica LumettiAnna Vittoria MattioliFrancesca CoppiVincenzo AielloMaria PerticoneLorenzo MalatinoClodoveo FerriPublished in: Clinical rheumatology (2019)
The prevalence of established CAD in SSc was lower compared with diabetics. However, in older SSc patients the prevalence of CAD was similar to that observed in diabetics.
Keyphrases
- coronary artery disease
- systemic sclerosis
- end stage renal disease
- ejection fraction
- chronic kidney disease
- newly diagnosed
- risk factors
- type diabetes
- peritoneal dialysis
- heart failure
- interstitial lung disease
- acute coronary syndrome
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- skeletal muscle
- adipose tissue
- aortic stenosis
- aortic valve
- middle aged
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement