Skip Navigation


Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on August 22, 2007
Rheumatology 2007 46(10):1513-1516; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kem176
This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow All Versions of this Article:
46/10/1513    most recent
kem176v1
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in ISI Web of Science
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Search for citing articles in:
ISI Web of Science (2)
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Disclaimer
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by John, H.
Right arrow Articles by Kitas, G. D.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by John, H.
Right arrow Articles by Kitas, G. D.
Related Collections
Right arrow Education
Right arrow Rheumatoid Arthritis
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

EDITORIALS

Patient education on cardiovascular aspects of rheumatoid disease: an unmet need

H. John1, E. D. Hale1, G. J. Treharne1,2 and G. D. Kitas1,2,3

1Department of Rheumatology, Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust, 2School of Psychology, University of Birmingham and 3Research Institute in Healthcare Science, University of Wolverhampton, UK.

Correspondence to: Dr Holly John, Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust, Russells Hall Hospital, Pensnett Road, Dudley DY1 2HQ, UK. E-mail: Holly.John@dgoh.nhs.uk

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most common form of inflammatory arthritis affecting nearly one in 100 adults [1]. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) occurs at rates higher than expected in the general population, is the most prevalent comorbidity and most common cause of death in RA patients [2–5]. The exact reasons remain unclear, but both classical CVD risk factors (such as hypertension and dyslipidaemia) and novel mechanisms (such as systemic inflammation), and their interplay, appear to be important [6, 7]. Classical risk factors may be fixed (e.g. age, sex, family history) or modifiable (e.g. smoking, hypertension, dyslipidaemia, obesity, sedentarity). The latter are an obvious target for identification and intervention [7, 8], neither of which appears to be happening systematically in the current rheumatology health care environment [3, 9]. This is partly due to lack of sufficient awareness of health . . . [Full Text of this Article]


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Rheumatology (Oxford)Home page
V. F. Panoulas, G. S. Metsios, A. V. Pace, H. John, G. J. Treharne, M. J. Banks, and G. D. Kitas
Hypertension in rheumatoid arthritis
Rheumatology, September 1, 2008; 47(9): 1286 - 1298.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 Rheumatology (Oxford)Home page
G. S. Metsios, A. Stavropoulos-Kalinoglou, J. J. C. S. Veldhuijzen van Zanten, G. J. Treharne, V. F. Panoulas, K. M. J. Douglas, Y. Koutedakis, and G. D. Kitas
Rheumatoid arthritis, cardiovascular disease and physical exercise: a systematic review
Rheumatology, March 1, 2008; 47(3): 239 - 248.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]