Death Rate and Causes of Death in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
| Autor: | O Mutru, K. Koota, Heikki Isomäki |
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| Rok vydání: | 1975 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Immunology MEDLINE Arthritis Arthritis Rheumatoid Sex Factors Rheumatology Sex factors Internal medicine Humans Immunology and Allergy Medicine In patient Finland Aged business.industry Mortality rate Age Factors General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Surgery Cardiovascular Diseases Rheumatoid arthritis Female Kidney Diseases business |
| Zdroj: | Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology. 4:205-208 |
| ISSN: | 1502-7732 0300-9742 |
| Popis: | Patients with rheumatoid arthritis, 500 males and 500 females, aged 40 years or over, and an age- and sex-matched control population were observed over a 3-year period. During the follow-up, 122 RA patients and 69 controls had died. The most common causes of death in RA patients were cardiovascular diseases (57 patients), renal failure (27 patients), infections (19 patients), and malignant neoplasms (11 patients); in the controls, the respective data are: cardiovascular diseases (35 people), malignant neoplasms (21 people), accidents (7 people), and infections (5 people). |
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