Targońska-Stępniak B, et al. - Experts evaluated the left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (LVDD) in RA patients with low disease activity. They included 70 RA patients (54 women, 16 men) with no CVD and 33 healthy controls, of comparable age. In RA patients with continued low disease activity, the prevalence of DD as expressed by E/A ratio was not different from that of controls. Findings suggested the probability of higher disease duration and severity to predispose to DD occurrence in patients with preserved ejection fraction (EF).