I volunteer and I am a speaker for both The Arthritis Foundation and Go red for Women . What are their connection. Take a look at this recent study that was published in The Journal of Internal medicine which revealed that RA sufferers have a 60 % increase of heart disease after only one year of being diagnosed with RA.
http://www.webmd.com/rheumatoid-arthritis/news/20101207/heart-attack-risk-quickly-follows-ra-diagnosis
Furthermore the Mayo clinic conducted another study that shows that Heart sudden deaths are more common in RA sufferers because we live in pain every day and are so used to pain that we wont report or notice chest pain or other signs like arm pain jaw pain etc -
It is the inflammatory process in our bodies that can not only affect our heart but all of our organs like lungs, kidneys etc - Please feel free to write a comment regarding this post
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