Researchers at the University of British Columbia and Arthritis Research Center of Canada, Vancouver, recently completed a study that has determined that rheumatoid arthritis (RA) sufferers have a 50% higher risk of death from cardiovascular disease including a 59% increased risk of death due to heart attack and a 52% increase in stroke deaths." Perhaps more ominously, they also noted that RA sufferers have not enjoyed the same reduction in cardiovascular disease death as the general public...