Comparison of the intima-media thickness of the common carotid artery in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: A single-center cross-sectional case-control study, and a brief review of the literature.
Farnood RajabzadehIman AkhlaghipourSahar Sadat MoosaviArya Nasimi ShadAtefeh Babazadeh BaghanZhaleh Shariati-SarabiAsma PayandehEhsan Hassan NejadPublished in: Health science reports (2023)
CIMT could be used as an efficient clinical index for identifying the early stages of atherosclerosis and predicting cardiovascular events following atherosclerosis in RA patients.
Keyphrases
- cardiovascular events
- cardiovascular disease
- end stage renal disease
- cross sectional
- coronary artery disease
- ejection fraction
- chronic kidney disease
- rheumatoid arthritis
- peritoneal dialysis
- prognostic factors
- optical coherence tomography
- metabolic syndrome
- type diabetes
- systemic lupus erythematosus
- ankylosing spondylitis
- patient reported