Abstracts tagged "corticosteroids and atherosclerosis"

Abstract Number: 2692 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019
Coronary Artery Disease in a Population-Based Cohort of Biopsy-Proven Giant Cell Arteritis in Southern Sweden
Pavlos Stamatis¹, Moman Mohammad ¹, Peter Merkel ², Martin Englund ³, Carl Turesson ⁴, David Erlinge ¹ and Aladdin Mohammad ¹, ¹Lund University, Lund, Skane Lan, Sweden, ²University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ³Lund University, Lund, Sweden, ⁴Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
Background/Purpose: The aim of this study was to estimate the incidence rate and prevalence of coronary artery diseases (CAD) in patients with temporal artery positive…