Carotid intima-media thickness and endothelial function: useful surrogate markers for establishing cardiovascular risk in patients with inflammatory rheumatic disease

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Carotid intima-media thickness and endothelial function: useful surrogate markers for establishing cardiovascular risk in patients with inflammatory rheumatic disease

Miguel A Gonzalez-Gay¹^,2 , Carlos Gonzalez-Juanatey³, Tomas R Vazquez-Rodriguez², Javier Martin⁴ and Javier Llorca¹^,5^,6

¹MAG-G and JL are senior authors

²Division of Rheumatology, Hospital Xeral Calde, c) Dr Ochoa s/n, 27004, Lugo, Spain

³Division of Cardiology, Hospital Xeral Calde, c) Dr Ochoa s/n, 27004, Lugo, Spain

⁴Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Avenida del Conocimiento s/n, 18100, Armilla, Granada, Spain

⁵Division of Epidemiology and Computational Biology, School of Medicine, University of Cantabria, Avda. Cardenal Herrera Oria s/n, 39011, Santander, Spain

⁶CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Spain

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Arthritis Research & Therapy 2008, 10:403doi:10.1186/ar2409


Published:	16 May 2008

See related editorial by Veldhuijzen van Zanten and Kitas, http://arthritis-research.com/content/10/1/102 and related response by Veldhuijzen van Zanten and Kitas, http://arthritis-research.com/content/10/3/404

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We read with interest the editorial by Veldhuijzen van Zanten and Kitas [1], in which they consider whether carotid artery intima-media thickness (IMT) – a surrogate marker of atherosclerosis – might be a good predictor of future cardiovascular events in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). They state that it remains an open question, because no long-term studies have documented such an association in patients with RA. We are pleased to provide the readers of this journal with an answer to this question.