Studies have shown that people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have a higher rate of heart disease than people that do not have RA. we believe this is caused by the inflammation produced by RA.
Aim 1: We want to study people with RA to see if we can detect very early changes in their heart muscle and compare these results to people who do not have RA.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
128
Vanderbilt
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Left Ventricular Mass Indexed to BSA, g/m^2
Left Ventricular Mass (LVM) is known to increase in proportion to overall body size and differs by gender. To assess an individual's risk for a cardiovascular event based on LVM,an adjustment for the patient's body size should be done. LVM in grams was divided by body surface area in meters squared, to adjust for body size. Body surface area was calculated by square root (height (cm) X weight (kg)/3600).
Time frame: one scan, cross sectional comparison
Left Atrium Size, mm
left atrium size, measured in millimeters
Time frame: one scan, cross sectional comparison
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