Potential effect of anti-tumour necrosis factor-alpha treatment on reducing the cardiovascular risk related to rheumatoid arthritis
Articolo
Data di Pubblicazione:
2010
Citazione:
Potential effect of anti-tumour necrosis factor-alpha treatment on reducing the cardiovascular risk related to rheumatoid arthritis / M. Cugno, F. A. Ingegnoli, R. Gualtierotti, F. Fantini. - In: CURRENT VASCULAR PHARMACOLOGY. - ISSN 1570-1611. - 8:2(2010 Mar), pp. 285-292.
Abstract:
Abstract : rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic systemic inflammatory disease that affects about 1% of the adult population.
RA sufferers not only have a high chronic disease burden, but may also experience increased cardiovascular disease
(CVD) and mortality as the prevalence of myocardial infarction (MI) is 4 times higher in RA patients than in general population, and there is ample evidence showing that coagulation processes are active in RA. Fibrin accumulation in the synovium is one of the most striking pathological features of rheumatoid synovitis and characteristic RA antibodies such as anti-citrullinated protein antibodies (ACPA) can cross-react with epitopes exposed on fibrin and fibrinogen molecules, and thus impair fibrinolysis. The inflammation, coagulation and fibrinolytic systems are modulated by a common mechanism that includes the involvement of proinflammatory cytokines, such as tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) and interleukin 6 (IL-6). It has long been recognised that extensive cross-talk takes place between the coagulation pathway and the inflammatory process at various levels, and there is growing evidence that this interaction may be relevant to arthritis. Large-scale, long-term studies have shown that anti-TNF-alpha treatment improves the clinical and laboratory measures of disease activity, and reduces local and systemic inflammation. TNF-alpha blockade may therefore also reduce the impaired coagulation and cardiovascular risk associated with RA. This review provides an overview of the pathophysiological role
of TNF-alpha in thrombotic mechanisms and the evidence so far available indicating that anti-TNF-alpha treatment can modify
cardiovascular risk in RA
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
Cardiovascular disease; Inflammation; Rheumatoid arthritis; Tumor necrosis factor-alpha
Elenco autori:
M. Cugno, F. A. Ingegnoli, R. Gualtierotti, F. Fantini
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