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Comorbidity in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis: does inflammation matter?
Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Reumatology.
Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Reumatology.
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Rheumatology and Autoimmunity
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-88498OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-88498DiVA, id: diva2:715978
Available from: 2014-05-07 Created: 2014-05-07 Last updated: 2018-06-07Bibliographically approved
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1. Early rheumatoid arthritis aspects of severity and co-morbidity
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Background Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic progressive destructive joint disease with an increased risk for co-morbidity and premature death if untreated. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the main cause of death but also other co-morbid conditions contribute to the patient’s shorter life expectancy. Inflammation is important for the development of CVD, but knowledge of its relationship with other co-morbidities is sparse. Early disease modifying anti rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) can suppress disease activity and improve the long-term outcome. The aim of this thesis was to evaluate prospectively aspects of disease activity and severity in a large cohort of patients with early RA. Predictive and prognostic markers, e.g., antibodies against citrullinated proteins/peptides (ACPAs), occurring in early disease and with implications for disease outcome and co-morbidity were evaluated.

Methods Patients with early RA (i.e., symptomatic for ≤12 months) have, since December 1995, been consecutively included in a large survey of prospective and observational studies on the progression of RA and the development of co-omorbidity. Autoantibodies, inflammatory, genetic markers and radiographs have been analyzed. In paper I, 210 RA patients and 102 controls were followed regularly for two years. The predictive value of four different ACPAs in relation to disease activity and radiological progression was evaluated. In Paper II (n = 700) and in Papers III-IV (n =950), patients with early RA from the four northern-most counties of Sweden were followed regularly for 5 years. Data on risk factors and co-morbidity was collected, according to the study protocol, from clinical records and self-reported questionnaires from patients at inclusion into the study cohort and after five years. The predictive value of traditional and potential disease related risk factors for new cardiovascular events (CVE) was evaluated (II). In Paper III, the impact of age at the onset RA, stratified as being young onset RA (<58 years; YORA) and late onset RA (≥58 years; LORA) on disease activity, severity and chosen treatment, was evaluated. In Paper IV, the development of new co-morbidities after RA onset and their relation to inflammatory activity was assessed.

Results The presence of anti-mutated citrullinated vimentin (MCV ) antibodies was associated with a more severe disease course, estimated by disease activity score, erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and swollen joint count after 24 months, compared with anti-CCP2, anti-CCP3, and anti CCP3.1 antibodies. In Paper II, the incidence of a new CVE during 5 years was explained by several of the traditional CV risk factors, and potentiated by a high disease activity. Treatment with DMARDs decreased the risk. In Paper III, LORA patients were associated with greater disease activity/severity at disease onset and over time compared with YORA who were more often ACPA positive. YORA patients were treated earlier with DMARDs, whilst LORA patients were more often treated with corticosteroids and less so with DMARDs early in the course of their disease. In Paper IV, 53%of patients already had one or more co-morbidities already at the onset of RA. After 5 years, 41% of the patients had developed at least one new co-morbidity. ESR at baseline and accumulated disease activity were associated with a new co-morbidity after five years.

Conclusion Early RA patients sero-positive for anti- MCV antibodies appeared to have a higher disease activity over time. The occurrence of a new CVE in early RA patients was predicted by traditional risk factors for CVD which were potentiated by a high disease activity. Treatment with DMARDs decreased the risk. Patients with young onset of RA were associated with a higher frequency of ACPA. Late onset of RA was associated with higher disease activity/severity at inclusion and over time. However, LORA patients were more often treated with corticosteroids and less so with DMARDs early in the disease course. Development of a new co-morbidity during the five years following diagnosis was related to ESR.

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Umeå: Umeå Universitet, 2014. p. 85
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Umeå University medical dissertations, ISSN 0346-6612 ; 1651
Keywords
Early rheumatoid arthriti, ACPA, cardiovascular co-morbidity, age at onset, pharmacological therapy, severity, disease activity, co-morbidity
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Rheumatology and Autoimmunity
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urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-88477 (URN)978-91-7601-059-4 (ISBN)
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2014-05-28, Hörsal Major Groove, Norrlands Universitetssjukhus, Umeå, 09:00 (Swedish)
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Available from: 2014-05-07 Created: 2014-05-06 Last updated: 2018-06-07Bibliographically approved

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