Objective To examine the risk of clinical coronary heart disease (CHD) in patients with
rheumatoid arthritis (RA) compared with age‐and sex‐matched non‐RA subjects, and to …

OBJECTIVES: To examine patterns of muscle mass change with aging and to estimate the
prevalence of sarcopenia. DESIGN: Cross‐sectional survey. SETTING: Population‐based …

Background Rheumatic disease and heart disease share common underpinnings involving
inflammation. The high levels of inflammation that characterize rheumatic diseases provide …

Objective A high frequency of infections complicating rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has been
described in reports of case series. This retrospective longitudinal cohort study was …

Objective To determine whether systemic inflammation confers any additional risk for
cardiovascular death among patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), after adjusting for …

Background: Descriptive epidemiology of total joint replacement procedures is limited to
annual procedure volumes (incidence). The prevalence of the growing number of …

The objective of this study was to develop European League Against Rheumatism/American
College of Rheumatology classification criteria for polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) …

Objective To examine trends in the incidence and prevalence of rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
from 1995 to 2007. Methods To augment our preexisting inception cohort of patients with RA …

Objective Interstitial lung disease (ILD) has been recognized as an important comorbidity in
rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We undertook the current study to assess incidence, predictors …

Objective To evaluate trends in and risk factors for mortality among patients with rheumatoid
arthritis (RA) over a 40‐year period. Methods A population‐based inception cohort was …