OBJECTIVE: To investigate the incidence of noncardiac vascular disease in a community-based incidence cohort of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and compare it to that in the general population and to investigate trends in the incidence of noncardiac vascular disease in patients with RA.
Grandmother. GRANDMOTHER, domestic relations. The mother of one's father or mother. The father's mother is called the paternal grandmother; the mother's mother is the maternal grandmother. 1  Facebook.
Definition of maternal. 1  1 : of, relating to, belonging to, or characteristic of a mother : motherly maternal love maternal instincts. 2  2a : related through a mother his maternal auntb : inherited or derived from the female parent maternal genes.