Myasoedova E, et al. - Through a study that involved a retrospectively recognized population-based cohort of 212 subjects with incident heart failure (HF) and prior rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and a cohort of 636 incident HF subjects without RA matched 3:1 on age, sex, and year of HF diagnosis, the researchers intended to contrast the frequency of and trends in hospitalizations following HF diagnosis during 1987-2015. All cases were followed until death, migration, or 12/31/2015. In RA vs non-RA, the rate of hospitalization following HF diagnosis was greater. In both groups, hospitalization rates were declining since 2005 and the variation between subjects with and without RA might decline following year 2010. In both sexes and across every ages, the extent of the increase was similar. Subjects with RA were more likely to be hospitalized for non-cardiovascular causes, however, not for HF or other cardiovascular causes in comparison with non-RA patients. Hence, despite the age and sex, the hospitalization rate after HF diagnosis was greater in RA vs non-RA subjects. Furthermore, in subjects with RA, increased hospitalization risk was driven by elevated rates of non-cardiovascular hospitalization.