tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Predictors of the first cardiovascular event in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus - a prospective cohort study"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Predictors of the first cardiovascular event in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus - a prospective cohort study. | Available online http content 11 6 R186 Open Access Research article Predictors of the first cardiovascular event in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus - a prospective cohort study Johanna Gustafsson1 Iva Gunnarsson1 Ola Borjesson1 Susanne Pettersson1 Sonia Moller1 Guo-Zhong Fei1 Kerstin Elvin2 Julia F Simard3 Lars-Olof Hansson4 Ingrid E Lundberg1 Anders Larsson5 and Elisabet Svenungsson1 Rheumatology Unit Department of Medicine Karolinska University Hospital Solna Karolinska Institutet SE-1 71 76 Stockholm Sweden 2Unit of Clinical Immunology Department of Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine Karolinska University Hospital Karolinska Institutet SE-171 76 Stockholm Sweden 3Clinical Epidemiology Unit Karolinska Institutet SE-171 76 Stockholm Sweden 4Department of Laboratory Medicine Karolinska University Hospital Karolinska Institutet SE-171 76 Stockholm Sweden 5Department of Clinical Chemistry and Pharmacology Akademiska Hospital SE-751 85 Uppsala Sweden Corresponding author Elisabet Svenungsson Received 13 Sep 2009 Revisions requested 5 Nov 2009 Revisions received 20 Nov 2009 Accepted 10 Dec 2009 Published 10 Dec 2009 Arthritis Research Therapy 2009 11 R186 doi 86 ar2878 This article is online at http content 11 6 R186 2009 Gustafsson et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction Cardiovascular disease CVD is a major cause of premature mortality among Systemic lupus erythematosus SLE patients. Many studies have measured and evaluated risk factors for premature subclinical atherosclerosis but few studies are prospective and few have evaluated risk factors for hard endpoints . clinically important .