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Coronary artery disease risk factors in the Johns Hopkins Lupus Cohort: prevalence, recognition by patients, and preventive practices.
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Whether these known risk factors are sufficient in and of themselves to explain the high frequency of CAD in the Hopkins Lupus Cohort or whether they are "enabling" factors acting upon endothelium damaged by immune-complex disease cannot be addressed by this study.About:
This article is published in Medicine.The article was published on 1992-09-01. It has received 245 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Risk factor & Framingham Risk Score.read more
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Prevalence and correlates of accelerated atherosclerosis in systemic lupus erythematosus
Mary J. Roman,Beth-Ann Shanker,Adrienne Davis,Michael D. Lockshin,Lisa R. Sammaritano,Ronit Simantov,Mary K. Crow,Joseph E. Schwartz,Stephen A. Paget,Richard B. Devereux,Jane E. Salmon +10 more
TL;DR: The clinical profile of patients with lupus and atherosclerosis suggests a role for disease-related factors in atherogenesis and underscores the need for trials of more focused and effective antiinflammatory therapy.
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Traditional Framingham risk factors fail to fully account for accelerated atherosclerosis in systemic lupus erythematosus.
John M. Esdaile,Michal Abrahamowicz,Tamara Grodzicky,Yin Li,Constantina Panaritis,Roxane du Berger,Robert Côté,Steven A. Grover,Paul R. Fortin,Ann E. Clarke,Jean-Luc Senécal +10 more
TL;DR: There is a substantial and statistically significant increase in CHD and stroke in SLE that cannot be fully explained by traditional Framingham risk factors alone.
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A practical guide to the monitoring and management of the complications of systemic corticosteroid therapy
Dora Liu,Alexandra Ahmet,Leanne M Ward,Preetha Krishnamoorthy,Efrem D. Mandelcorn,Richard Leigh,Jacques P. Brown,Albert Cohen,Harold Kim,Harold Kim +9 more
TL;DR: This comprehensive article reviews these adverse events of systemic corticosteroid therapy and provides practical recommendations for their prevention and management based on both current literature and the clinical experience of the authors.
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Premature morbidity from cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in women with systemic lupus erythematosus.
TL;DR: Young women with SLE are at substantially increased risk of AMI, CHF, and CVA, and the relative odds of these conditions decrease with age among women withSLE.
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Accelerated Atherosclerosis in Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases
Yehuda Shoenfeld,Roberto Gerli,Andrea Doria,Eiji Matsuura,Marco Matucci Cerinic,Nicoletta Ronda,Luis J. Jara,Mahmud Abu-Shakra,Pier Luigi Meroni,Yaniv Sherer,Yaniv Sherer +10 more
TL;DR: Several AIRDs exhibit increased overt cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevalence as well as findings of advanced subclinical atherosclerosis, which may precede the appearance of a clinical disease and thus be a target of early identification and preventive therapy.