Reuters
They found patients who later were diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis were three times more likely to have been hospitalized for an acute heart attack and five times more likely to have an unrecognized heart attack.
After diagnosis, the rheumatoid arthritis patients were twice as likely to find out they had a heart attack and did not even notice, or to die suddenly from a heart condition, the researchers wrote in the journal Arthritis & Rheumatism.
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