Comorbidities in Mexican Mestizo patients with rheumatoid arthritis: A cross-sectional study of 523 patients in a preventive cardio-rheumatology clinic.

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors and comorbidities in a cohort of Mexican Mestizo rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients.

Methods: We performed an observational and cross-sectional study involving the RA cohort of our Cardio-Rheumatology Clinic in a teaching hospital. The cohort includes patients aged 40-75 years old who fulfilled the ACR/EULAR classification criteria for RA, patients were recruited from August 2014 to July 2023.