email article Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were at risk for long-term poor outcomes after myocardial infarction (MI), Finnish researchers found. The cumulative all-cause mortality during 14 years of follow-up after MI among RA patients was 80.4% compared with 72.3% among matched controls, for a hazard ratio of 1.25 (95% CI 1.16-1.35, P 0.0001), according to Antti Palomäki, MD, PhD, of Turku University Hospital in Turku, Finland, and colleagues. Factors that were associated with increased mortality among RA patients were duration of RA (HR 1.06, 95% CI 1.04-1.09, P 0.0001) per 5-year increment, use of corticosteroids (HR 1.27, 95% CI 1.11-1.45, P 0.001), and corticosteroid dosage per 1 mg/day (HR 1.05, 95% CI 1.02-1.08,