Generally, patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) havehigher levels of inflammationin their bodies, which can affect other organs and tissues besides the joints. In fact,people with RA have up to twice the risk of heart diseaseand development of heart failure (especially if they test positive for rheumatoid factor, or RF) than the general population, according to a 2013 Mayo Clinic study published in theAmerican Heart Journal.
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