Death Rate and Causes of Death in RA Patients During a Period of Five Years
- 1 January 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology
- Vol. 6 (4) , 241-244
- https://doi.org/10.3109/03009747709095458
Abstract
Patients with rheumatoid arthritis [RA] 500 males and 500 females, aged 40 yr or over, together with an age and sex matched control population, were observed over a 5 yr period. During the follow-up 176 RA patients and 107 controls died. The most common caused of death in RA patients were cardiovascular diseases (86 patients), renal failure (33 patients), infections (23 patients) and malignant neoplasm (21 patients); in the control, the corresponding data were cardiovascular diseases (53), malignant neoplasms (30), infections (9) and accidents (8).This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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