Published: 21 March 2023
Author(s): Gian Luca Erre, Elena Bartoloni, Ombretta Viapiana, Elisa Gremese, Fabiola Atzeni, “Cardiovascular, Obesity and Rheumatic Disease Study (CORDIS) Group” of the Italian Society of Rheumatology (SIR)
Issue: May 2023
Section: Letter to the Editor

We appreciate the interest of Noriaki Kou and colleagues [1] in our article [2], and we fully agree that beside disease activity, therapies, and systemic inflammation other non-traditional cardiovascular risk factors such as extra-articular manifestations and positivity for anti-citrullinated peptide antibodies (ACPA) and rheumatoid factor (RF) would negatively impact on the risk of future cardiovascular events in the RA population.

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