Body composition and Cardiovascular risk in Rheumatoid Arthritis patients Professor Joan Bathon & Dr. Gregory Summers
Listen to Professor Joan Bathon’s (Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, John Hopkins University) conversation surrounding body composition and cardiovascular (CV) risk in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) patients. Professor Bathon discusses the significance of increased fat mass contributing to both auto-inflammatory conditions such as rheumatoid synovium and plaque accumulation in vessels increasing CV risk. She touches on the ‘paradoxical effect’ with RA patients with higher Body Mass Index (BMI) that seem to be protected from CV disease than patients with low BMI suffering from the same condition.
