NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with osteoporosis are more at risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, according to a recent Swedish study by researchers at the Swedish University of Lund and published in the latest issue of the journal Osteoarthritis and Cartilage.

The researchers studied 469,000 people living in Skona, Sweden, between the ages of 45 and 84 years between 2003 and 2014 to reach the results of the study. The study included 16,000 patients with knee arthritis, nine thousand with hip arthritis, and 4,000 with arthritis The wrist, five thousand five hundred is infected with other forms of arthritis.

The researchers found that people with osteoporosis in their forms of arthritis were more likely to die from cardiovascular disease.

World Health Organization: 17.3 million die from cardiovascular disease ( Deutsche Welle)

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"Arthritis causes pain, which often results in people not being physically active, resulting in an increased weight that leads to the risk of cardiovascular disease," said lead researcher Dr. Martin Englund.

He pointed out that there are common factors between osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease, most notably inflammation, and said that the more years of osteoporosis increased the risk of death from heart disease.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), cardiovascular diseases are at the forefront of global causes of death, with more deaths than any other cause of death.

About 17.3 million people die from heart disease every year, accounting for 30 percent of the world's total deaths each year, and by 2030 it is expected that 23 million people will die from heart disease every year, the WHO said.

Osteoporosis is the most common form of arthritis, causing severe pain and swelling in the joints and cartilage, and shows its effect in particular in the knees, hips, hands and spine.