RA patients 'treated differently' following heart attack
Friday 27th May 2011
Rheumatoid arthritis patients are treated differently after having a heart attack, a European study has reported.
Those with the condition were seen to be 20 per cent less likely to be given standard MI treatments by clinicians in the 30 days following their first heart attack than other patients.
In addition, this level of prescription of medications like statins and betablockers, remained at around the same level after 180 days.
Dr Jesper Lindhardsen of the Gentofte University Hospital in Copenhagen, Denmark said: "Clinicians may find post-MI treatment in RA patients more complicated which would explain the lower propensity towards prescribing treatment; however this may be increasing the CVD burden seen in RA patients."
This follows findings that rheumatologists and obstetricians differ in their treatment of pregnant women.
A UK study revealed that 32 per cent of rheumatologists would choose to continue treatments with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications (NSAIDs) during the gestational period.
Written by Angela Newbury
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