Rheumatoid Arthritis and Heart attacks

RA increases the risk of fatal heart attacks by more than 50 %

Rheumatoid arthritis increases the risk of cardiovascular death by 50 percent,” according to a study published in the Dec. 15, 2008 issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism. This data was analysed after looking at 24 published clinical studies, involving 111,758 patients who had a total of 22,927 cardiovascular events. In summary the inflammation in Rheumatoid arthritis increases the risk of heart disease, fatal heart attacks and strokes significantly.