Risk of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a nationwide study

AIM: Inflammatory cytokines in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) directly affect cardiac electrophysiology by inhibiting cardiac potassium currents, leading to delay of cardiac repolarisation and QT-prolongation. This may result in lethal arrhythmias. We studied whether RA increases the rate o...

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Autores principales: Hegazy, Hatem, Folke, Fredrik, Coronel, Ruben, Torp-Pedersen, Christian, Gislason, Gunnar H, Eroglu, Talip E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2022
Materias:
Arrhythmias and Sudden Death
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9161077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35649573
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/openhrt-2022-001987

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9161077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35649573
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/openhrt-2022-001987

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