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Myocardial dysfunction in rheumatoid arthritis: epidemiology and pathogenesis

Jon T Giles email, Verônica Fernandes, Joao AC Lima and Joan M Bathon

Arthritis Research & Therapy 2005, 7:195-207doi:10.1186/ar1814

Both RA and heart disease involved with potassium.

Charles Weber   (28 September 2005)  retired email

Rheumatoid arthritis always has low cell potassium. A potassium deficiency can cause necrosis of heart cells. A potassium deficiency is almost certainly the link between RA and heart disease. For a discussion of the affect of potassium deficiency on physiology, see; <a href="http://members.tripod.com/~charles_W/arthritis3.html ">

Competing interests

I have written several noncommercial articles about RA posted on the internet, starting here <a href="http://members.tripod.com/~charles_W/arthritis.html "> and summarized here <a href="http://members.tripod.com/~charles_W/potassium.html">

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