Atherosclerosis in rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus

I. Avalos¹, Y.H. Rho², C.P. Chung³, C.M. Stein²

Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA; ²Department of Medicine, Divisions of Rheumatology and Clinical Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA; ³Department of Medicine, Johns-Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Key words

rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, atherosclerosis, inflammation.

Please address correspondence to: Ingrid Avalos, MD, 110 Francis St., Boston, MA 02215, USA.

E-mail: iavalos@bidmc.harvard.edu

Clin Exp Rheumatol 2008; 26 (Suppl. 51): S-5-S-13

© CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RHEUMATOLOGY 2008.