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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.
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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.

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Prevalence and correlates of accelerated atherosclerosis in systemic lupus erythematosus

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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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

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.
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