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  • Abstract Number: 147 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2017

    Performance of Cardiovascular Risk Age and Vascular Age Estimations in Predicting Cardiovascular Events in Rheumatoid Arthritis

    Grunde Wibetoe1, Cynthia S. Crowson2, Joseph Sexton3, Silvia Rollefstad1, Eirik Ikdahl1, George D. Kitas4, Piet van Riel5, Sherine E. Gabriel6, Tore K. Kvien7, Karen Douglas8, Aamer Sandoo8,9, Elke Arts5, Solveig Wållberg-Jonsson10, Solbritt Rantapää Dahlqvist10, George Karpouzas11, Patrick H. Dessein12,13, Linda Tsang14, Hani El-Gabalawy15, Carol A Hitchon15, Virginia Pascual-Ramos16, Irazu Contreras-Yañez17, Petros P Sfikakis18, Evangelia Zampeli19, Miguel Angel González-Gay20, Alfonso Corrales21, Iris J. Colunga-Pedraza22, Dionicio A. Galarza-Delgado23, Jose Ramon Azpiri-Lopez24 and Anne Grete Semb1, 1Preventive Cardio-Rheuma clinic, Dept. of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway, 2Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology,Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 3Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway, 4School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 5Department of Rheumatic Diseases, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 6Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, 7NORDMARD, Oslo, Norway, Oslo, Norway, 8Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust, West Midlands, United Kingdom, 9School of Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom, 10University of Umeå, Umeå, Sweden, 11Division of Rheumatology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, 12Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium, 13Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Brussel, Belgium, 14Rheumatology, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, 15University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, 16Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrició, Mexico City, Mexico, 17Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico, 18First Department of Propedeutic Internal Medicine, Laikon Hospital, Athens University Medical School, Athens, Greece, 19Institute of Autoimmune Systemic and Neurological Diseases, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, 20Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla. IDIVAL. Santander. Universidad de Cantabria. Spain, Johannesburg, South Africa, 21Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla. IDIVAL. Santander. Universidad de Cantabria. Spain, Santander, Spain, 22Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario, UANL., Monterrey, Mexico, 23Chief of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario, UANL., Monterrey, Mexico, 24Cardiology, Hospital Universitario, UANL., Monterrey, Mexico

    Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients are at high risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Risk algorithms for the general population lack precision when applied to RA…

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