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Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on April 7, 2006
Rheumatology 2006 45(6):782-783; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kel125
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Re: Obesity and cardiovascular risk factors in rheumatoid arthritis

F. C. Hall1 and N. Dalbeth2

1 University of Cambridge, School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, UK and 2 University of Auckland, Department of Medicine, Auckland, New Zealand

Correspondence to: F. C. Hall. E-mail: fch22@medschl.cam.ac.uk

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SIR, Armstrong and colleagues raise the important issue of optimizing body mass index (BMI) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), as part of a cardiovascular risk reduction strategy. They include some interesting data from a local RA cohort, which revealed that 68% patients had a BMI >25 and 31% had a BMI . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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