Rheumatoid arthritis is characterized by early and accelerated atherosclerosis leading to
increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Beyond traditional cardiovascular risk …

Objective. To determine the efficacy of methotrexate (MTX) with infliximab (IFX) compared
with MTX alone in the prevention of atherosclerosis and arterial stiffness in patients with …

OBJECTIVES: Connective tissue diseases involve characteristic inflammatory lesions in the
cardiovascular system, in addition to other systems. The involvement of the cardiovascular …

Assesment of large arterial stiffness is increasingly used in clinal settings. Although there are
several invasive and non-invasive methods such as carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity …

ACA: anticentromer autoantitest ACE: angiotenzin konvertáló enzim ACR: American College
of Rheumatology AECA: endothelsejt ellenes autoantitest AMA: antimitokondriális antitest …