When Massachusetts voters elected Republican Scott Brown to the US Senate, they threw a wild card into the poker game called healthcare reform. Medscape Medical News
The metabolic syndrome is a cluster of cardiovascular risk factors that are of metabolic origin, and include atherogenic dyslipidemia, hypertension, and hyperglycemia. In RA patients, several other factors increase the risk of developing the syndrome. Future Rheumatology
A summary by Maxime Dougados, MD, of current data on the management of rheumatoid arthritis in patients with cardiovascular disease, as presented at EULAR 2008. Medscape Rheumatology
