Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and other inflammatory joint disorders (IJD) have
increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk compared with the general population. In 2009, the …

Introduction Co-morbidity and mortality due to cardiovascular disease (CVD) are increased
in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Most published studies in this field are retrospective …

Introduction In this study we aimed to investigate whether there are indications of premature
atherosclerosis, as measured by endothelial dependent flow-mediated dilation (ED-FMD) …

Introduction Disease activity, severity and comorbidity contribute to increased mortality in
patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We evaluated the impact of age at disease onset on …

Objective: To examine the incidence and outcome of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in
patients with rheumatoid arthritis compared with the general population, and to examine …

Flow cytometry enables studies of several different aspects of platelet function in response
to a variety of platelet agonists. This can be done using only a small volume of whole blood, …

Background Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) suffer from co-morbidities that contribute
to a shortened lifespan. Inflammation is important for the development of cardiovascular …

It is recognised that platelets respond differently to activation, where a subpopulation of
platelets adopt a procoagulant phenotype while others are aggregatory. However, it has not …

Background Although flow cytometry is often brought forward as a preferable method in the
setting of thrombocytopenia, the relative effects of low sample counts on results from flow …

OBJECTIVE: To examine the incidence of, and outcome after, a stroke in patients with rheumatoid
arthritis (RA) compared with the general population. METHODS: The northern Sweden …