Are there more acute cardiac hospitalizations in winter in patients with systemic sclerosis? An analysis from the National Inpatient Sample.

Our study did not support that patients with systemic sclerosis had a disproportionally higher risk of acute cardiac hospitalization in winter compared to the general population. We found that systemic sclerosis patients hospitalized for acute cardiac care had a lower burden of traditional cardiovascular risk factors than their non-systemic sclerosis counterparts.