Cardiovascular risk management for patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases

[Joachim]

EULAR, the European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology, has developed new recommendations for CVR management in people with gout, vasculitis, systemic sclerosis (SSc), myositis, mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD), Sjögren's syndrome (SS), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). People with inflammatory rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) have an increased risk of developing and dying from CVD compared to people in the general population. Furthermore, people with these conditions are often exposed to immunomodulators and steroid medications. Although controlling inflammation may reduce CVR, cardiovascular side effects might outweigh any anti-inflammatory benefit.

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