Be Heart Smart

Get smart about how rheumatoid arthritis drugs affect your heart.

Drugs to ease the pain in the joint, which is swelling in the heart of the sisters. But if I live, especially rheumatoid arthritis (RA), because research has shown that inflammation, which is a particular risk of a heart attack a twofold of the disease.
And this is what you say about the risk of attacks that struck the heart of the lack of some of the experts Mauris arthritis for the most part.

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Most traditional antirheumatic drugs waiting to disease (DMARDs), seems to reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes, said Martin Bergman January, 1500, the chief of Rheumatology Taylor Hospital in Ridley Park, Pa.
"The more you have, the lower the risk," says Dr. Bergman, who is in the standard analyzes of questionnaires, classified information from the patient, the progression of rheumatoid arthritis (by asking for-ra). The latest results suggest taking methotrexate reduces the risk of heart attack in a year and a 18 percent reduced risk of stroke by 11 percent.

APPLAUSE sulfasalazine (Azulfidine), and leflunomide (Arava) had similar results, Dr. Bergman says that while medicine (Myochrysine) and antimalarial as hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil), appeared little impact on cardiovascular risk.

TNF inhibitors

Inflammatory drugs is called an animal, stimulates the need to block the signal from the tumor necrosis factor blockers or TNF-a, which revolutionized the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. Affect heart still needs more than sad.

While research has shown the weakness of the heart and the hearts of the people to reduce the risk of rheumatoid arthritis treated with TNF blockers, the heart of another, it would seem to be a sin.
People with heart failure have high levels of TNF-a, TNF-blocker medicines that from the first thought to be a remedy in this disease, says Daniel H. Solomon, 1500, the chief of the house of the hospital in the sciences at Brigham and Women 's Section, we wish to clinical Rheumatology.

This research is not enough. "More often than not the data suggests that must be carefully considered, that when the angels said," the people who have rheumatoid arthritis, even in the failure of the heart, he says.

NSAIDs

There have been many drugs such as the news reports, an analgesic inhibitors of COX-2 increase the risk of heart attack and stroke,. Other major studies have shown that the drug (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen also raise the risk.

As long as you are in the power, such medicaments, a review of the new six studies celicoxib (CELEBREX) in the placebo with 8,000 patients, who in March 2008 published in the journal Circulation, found that the risk of the disease and the football is not well established factors such as high blood pressure, with safety catch gradually increased to 400 mg, twice a day, without increasing the risk of cardiovascular events. Moderate to high risk of soil or taking things more experienced 200 cardiovascular Celebrex 400 mg twice daily, or if one has given. Doctors believe that the safest, taking Celebrex may be well with the risk of a patient only once a day, because it is the blood increases.
In all of NSAIDs jury is still out. "It seems," he said Solomon, Dr. research available, "it is safer for the heart in the NSAID naproxen.