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. 2021 Nov 10;8:757738. doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2021.757738

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Copyright © 2021 Sinha, Rivera, Chadha, Prasada, Pawlowski, Thorp, DeBerge, Ramsey-Goldman, Lee, Achenbach, Lloyd-Jones and Feinstein.

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Risk of incident coronary heart disease among chronic inflammatory disease groups stratified by disease severity. Analysis performed in nested cohort. Cox proportional hazard ratios adjusted for age, sex, race/ethnicity, insurance, baseline year, hypertension, diabetes, current smoking, total cholesterol, statin use, and systemic steroid use. CHD, coronary heart disease; HR, hazard ratio; CID, chronic inflammatory disease; HIV, human immunodeficiency virus; RA, rheumatoid arthritis; SLE, systemic lupus erythematosus; SSc, systemic sclerosis; IBD, inflammatory bowel disease.