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Inflammation, carotid intima-media thickness and atherosclerosis in rheumatoid arthritis

Carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT) reflects early atherosclerosis and predicts cardiovascular events in the general population. An increased cIMT is present in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, compared with control individuals, from the early stages of the disease and is thought to indicate ac...

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Main Authors: Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Jet JCS, Kitas, George D
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2008
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2374455/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18226183
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/ar2345
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