Fig 1.
Flow diagram of the published articles evaluated for inclusion in this meta-analysis.
Table 1.
Sample size, female percentages and mean age of RA patients participating in the studies included in this meta-analysis.
Table 2.
Critical appraisal using the Newcastle-Ottawa Quality Assessment Scale.
Fig 2.
The effect of gender on different CV events.
Similar risk of stroke (A), coronary artery disease (B) and CVD in general (C) among women and men with RA.
Fig 3.
The effect of age on a”pooled” CVD outcome in patients with RA.
The groups are stratified based on the age in three subgroups: <50 years, 50–65 years and >65 years, respectively.