Correlation between endothelial function and carotid atherosclerosis in rheumatoid arthritis patients with long-standing disease |
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| Authors: | Carlos González-Juanatey Javier Llorca Miguel A González-Gay |
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| Affiliation: | 1.Cardiology Division, Hospital Xeral-Calde,Lugo,Spain;2.Department of Epidemiology and Computational Biology, School of Medicine,University of Cantabria, and CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), IFIMAV,Santander,Spain;3.Department of Rheumatology,Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, IFIMAV,Santander,Spain |
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| Abstract: | Introduction In this study, we aimed to determine the relationship between flow-mediated endothelium-dependent vasodilatation (FMD) and carotid artery intima-media wall thickness (IMT), two surrogate markers of atherosclerosis, in a series of Spanish patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) without clinically evident cardiovascular (CV) disease. |
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