Genes explain higher prevalence of cardiovascular disease in chronic immune mediated inflammatory patients
The results of a study presented at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR) 2017 represent an important step towards characterising the genetic basis of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in chronic immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMID). Specific genetic loci (different positions on the chromosome) previously identified as being associate with CVD risk in the general population […]
