Table 3: Cardiovascular events and risk factors together with other comorbidities in RA-patients from the Middle-European compared to the Austrian COMORA subcohort and the international COMORA cohort. Data are given in absolute numbers (with % of all available data in brackets).

Risks and Comorbidities	Middle-European	COMORA Austria	COMORA
Cardiovascular events	3 (3.8)	12 (6)	235 (6)
Cardiovascular risk factors
- Current smoker	18 (22.5)	98 (48)***	510 (13)*
- Arterial hypertension	31 (38.8)	106 (52)+	1584 (40.4)
- Diabetes mellitus	9 (11.3)	24 (12)	549 (14.0)
- Obesity	10 (12.5)	n.a.	n.a.
COPD	2 (2.5)	10 (5)	137 (3.5)
Neoplasms with malignity
- any solid tumor	2 (2.5)	n.a.	176 (4.5)
- basocellular skin tumor	0 (0)	6 (3)	78 (2)