Increased Deaths in RA, Despite Decreasing Mortality Rates Save
Data from the Swedish Rheumatology Quality (SRQ) Register studied death rates in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) between 1997 and 2014. Holmqvist and colleagues studied 17,512 RA and 78,847 matched controls from the general population, until their death.
For both the RA patients and general population, they noted steady decrease in mortality rates over time.
The risk of death in the RA cohort was not increased (HR=1.01, 95% CI 0.96 to 1.06); there was a time dependent increase in mortality rate that was present 5 years after RA diagnosis (HR after 10 years since RA diagnosis=1.43 (95% CI 1.28 to 1.59)).
Despite advancements in RA management during recent years and even with decreasing mortality rates, RA continues to be linked to an increased risk of death.
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