Abstract Number: 1009 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells Are Activated in Systemic Sclerosis and Contribute to the Disease By Inducing Ifnα and CXCL4
Background/Purpose: Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells (PDCs) are key immune cells involved with anti-viral responses due to their ability to produce large amount of type I IFN…Abstract Number: 1010 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Elucidating the Activation Profile of Systemic Sclerosis Macrophages
Background/Purpose: Genome-wide gene expression studies implicate macrophages (MØs) as mediators of fibrosis in systemic sclerosis (SSc) and our data indicate that MØs constitute the dominant…Abstract Number: 1011 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Correlations Between B Cell Epitope Specificity and Clinical Features in Patients with Jo-1 Antibodies and the Anti-Synthetase Syndrome
Correlations Between B Cell Epitope Specificity and Clinical Features in Patients with Jo-1 Antibodies and the Anti-Synthetase Syndrome Background/Purpose: Idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM) is an…Abstract Number: 1013 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Risk of Colchicine Associated Myopathy in Gout: Influence of Concomitant Use of Statin
Background/Purpose: To investigate the risk of concomitant use of statin on the development of myopathy in gout patients who received colchicine. Methods: We included patients…Abstract Number: 1014 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Juvenile Dermatomyositis: What Comes Next?
Background/Purpose: Few studies describe the natural course and long term outcomes of myositis in childhood in large, prospectively-followed patient cohorts, treated in the modern era.…Abstract Number: 1015 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Pro-Inflammatory Cytokines Produced By Different Subsets of Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells Are Associated with Ro52/TRIM21 Deficiency in Patients with Inflammatory Myopathies
Background/Purpose: Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) are a group of rare, heterogeneous autoimmune diseases of unknown etiology. Different physiopathogenic mechanisms have been proposed, including the production…Abstract Number: 1016 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Soluble BAT-3: A New Biomarker for Antisynthetase Syndrome
Background/Purpose: Antisynthetase syndrome (ARS) is an inflammatory myopathy (IM) commonly associated to interstitial lung disease (ILD) and different anti-tRNA-synthetase autoantibodies. The immune mechanisms leading to…Abstract Number: 1017 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Statistical Simulation Using Data from the Foundation for the National Institute of Health/Osteoarthritis Initiative Biomarkers Consortium to Evaluate the Clinical Utility of Prognostic Knee Osteoarthritis Biomarkers in Designing a Knee Osteoarthritis Clinical Trial
Background/Purpose: Development of disease-modifying osteoarthritis drugs (DMOADs) for knee osteoarthritis (OA) has been challenging, partially owing to lack of prognostic biomarkers. Our objective was to…Abstract Number: 1018 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Dietary Intake of Fiber and Risk of Knee Osteoarthritis
Background/Purpose: Dietary fiber reduced risks of metabolic diseases in part by reducing systemic inflammation and body weight. These factors are both likely to contribute to…Abstract Number: 1019 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Impact of Hip and Knee Osteoarthritis on the Subsequent Risk of Incident Diabetes: A Population-Based Cohort Study
Background/Purpose: Osteoarthritis (OA) and diabetes commonly co-occur. Potential explanations include common risk factors (aging, obesity) and the effects of OA-related functional limitations on diabetes risk…Abstract Number: 1020 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Risk Factors Can Classify Individuals Who Develop Accelerated Knee Osteoarthritis
Background/Purpose: Accelerated knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a painful disorder and associated with several risk factors: greater age, greater body mass index (BMI), static knee alignment,…Abstract Number: 1021 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Maintaining Sufficient Serum Vitamin D Levels over 2 Years Is Associated with Reduced Knee Structural and Symptomatic Changes in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis
Background/Purpose: To examine whether those maintaining sufficient serum vitamin D levels have reduced knee structural changes and symptomatic improvement compared with those not maintaining sufficient…Abstract Number: 1022 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Risk of Symptomatic Knee Osteoarthritis after Arthroscopic Meniscus Repair Vs Partial Meniscectomy Vs the General Population
Background/Purpose: Traumatic meniscus injury is associated with increased risk of developing knee osteoarthritis (OA). The purpose of meniscus repair, beyond short time symptom relief and…Abstract Number: 1023 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Fracture Risk Reduction with Romosozumab: Results of a Phase 3 Study in Postmenopausal Women with Osteoporosis
Background/Purpose: Romosozumab (Romo) is an investigational bone-forming monoclonal antibody that binds sclerostin and has a dual effect, increasing bone formation and decreasing bone resorption. Here,…Abstract Number: 1024 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Superior Gains in Bone Mineral Density and Estimated Strength at the Hip for Romosozumab Compared with Teriparatide in Women with Postmenopausal Osteoporosis Transitioning from Bisphosphonate Therapy: Results of a Phase 3, Open-Label Clinical Trial
Background/Purpose: STRUCTURE was a phase 3, open-label study evaluating the effect of romosozumab or teriparatide for 12 months in women with postmenopausal osteoporosis transitioning from…