Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Increased risk of peripheral arterial disease in polymyalgia rheumatica: a population-based cohort study. | Available online http content 11 2 R50 Research article Increased risk of peripheral arterial disease in polymyalgia rheumatica a population-based cohort study Kenneth J Warrington1 Elena P Jarpa1 Cynthia S Crowson2 Leslie T Cooper3 Gene G Hunder1 Eric L Matteson1 and Sherine E Gabriel4 Division of Rheumatology Department of Medicine Mayo Clinic 200 First Street SW Rochester MN 55905 USA 2Division of Biostatistics Department of Health Sciences Research Mayo Clinic 200 First Street SW Rochester MN 55905 USA 3Division of Cardiovascular Diseases Department of Medicine Mayo Clinic 200 First Street SW Rochester MN 55905 USA 4Division of Epidemiology Department of Health Sciences Research Mayo Clinic 200 First Street SW Rochester MN 55905 USA Corresponding author Kenneth J Warrington Received 13 Dec 2008 Revisions requested 30 Jan 2009 Revisions received 5 Mar 2009 Accepted 31 Mar 2009 Published 31 Mar 2009 Arthritis Research Therapy 2009 11 R50 doi ar2664 This article is online at http content 11 2 R50 2009 Warrington et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Open Access Abstract Introduction The present study was conducted to determine whether patients with polymyalgia rheumatica PMR are at an increased risk of peripheral arterial disease PAD . Methods An inception cohort of all Olmsted County Minnesota residents diagnosed with PMR between 1 January 1970 and 31 December 1999 was compared with non-PMR subjects two for each PMR subject from among residents. Both cohorts were followed longitudinally by complete medical record review from the incidence date of PMR or index date for the non-PMR cohort until death incident PAD migration or
