Time Trends of Cardiovascular Disease in the General Population and Inflammatory Arthritis

Anna Södergren; Solbritt Rantapää-Dahlqvist; Lotta Ljung

doi:10.1016/j.rdc.2022.07.003

Time Trends of Cardiovascular Disease in the General Population and Inflammatory Arthritis

Rheum Dis Clin North Am. 2023 Feb;49(1):1-17. doi: 10.1016/j.rdc.2022.07.003.

Authors

Anna Södergren¹, Solbritt Rantapää-Dahlqvist², Lotta Ljung³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine/Rheumatology, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden; Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine (WCMM), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden. Electronic address: anna.sodergren@umu.se.
² Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine/Rheumatology, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden.
³ Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine/Rheumatology, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden; Center for Rheumatology, Academic Specialist Center, Stockholm Health Services, Box 6357, Stockholm 102 35, Sweden. Electronic address: https://twitter.com/lotta_ljung.

PMID: 36424020
DOI: 10.1016/j.rdc.2022.07.003

Abstract

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading causes of death in the world, but declining trends for cardiovascular (CV) mortality and morbidity have been observed during the last decades. Reports on secular trends regarding the excess CV mortality and morbidity in rheumatoid arthritis show diverging results. Data support that also patients with inflammatory arthritis have benefited from improved treatment and prevention for CVD, which can be observed, for example, in decreased case fatality after CV event. However, several recent studies indicate a remaining excess CV risk in patients with inflammatory arthritis.

Keywords: Cardiovascular disease; Psoriatic arthritis; Rheumatoid arthritis; Spondarthritis; Time trends.

Publication types

Review
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Arthritis, Rheumatoid* / epidemiology
Cardiovascular Diseases* / epidemiology
Cardiovascular Diseases* / etiology
Humans