Patients with rheumatoid arthritis are associated with an increased risk for heart failure, particularly heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.
Current research has not found an association between rheumatoid arthritis and appendicitis, but some studies found a link between other autoimmune diseases and appendicitis.
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory ... gangrene (when body tissue dies due to a lack of blood supply), heart attack, and stroke. “Typically, people who have rheumatoid ...