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Abstract Number: 2100 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Hypomethylation in Enhancer and Promoter Regions of Interferon Regulated Genes in Multiple Tissues Is Associated with Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome
Juliana Imgenberg-Kreuz¹, Johanna K Sandling^1,2, Jonas Carlsson Almlöf¹, Jessica Nordlund¹, Linnea Signér², Katrine B Norheim³, Roald Omdal³, Majia-Leena Eloranta², Lars Rönnblom², Ann-Christine Syvänen¹ and Gunnel Nordmark², ¹Molecular Medicine and Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, ²Rheumatology and Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, ³Clinical Immunology Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway
Background/Purpose: Epigenetic modifications have emerged as important contributing factors in the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases, including primary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS), and may act as a…
Abstract Number: 2101 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
HLA Associations in Mothers of Children with Cardiac Manifestations of Neonatal Lupus
Hannah C. Ainsworth¹, Carl D. Langefeld¹, Miranda C. Marion², Nathalie Costedoat-Chalumeau³, Antonio Brucato⁴, Jill P. Buyon⁵ and Robert M. Clancy⁵, ¹Biostatistical Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, ²Biostatistical Sciences and Center for Public Health Genomics, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC, ³Internal Medicine Department, Cochin Hospital, “René-Descartes Paris V” University, Paris, France, ⁴Internal Medicine, Hospital Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy, ⁵Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Cardiac manifestations of neonatal lupus, comprising atrioventricular conduction defects and cardiomyopathy, occur in fetuses exposed to anti-Ro/SSA antibodies, and carry substantial mortality. There is…
Abstract Number: 2102 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Higher Persistence and Adherence with Combination Therapy with Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitor+Methotrexate Combination Versus Triple Therapy in US Veterans with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Brian Sauer¹, Chia-Chen Teng², Jianwei Leng³, Ted R. Mikuls⁴, Jeffrey R. Curtis⁵, Bradley S. Stolshek⁶, Derek Tang⁶ and Grant W. Cannon⁷, ¹IDEAS Center and Division of Epidemiology, HSR&D SLC VA Medical Center and University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ²HSR&D SLC VA Medical Center and University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ³Internal Medicine Division of Epidemiology, HSR&D SLC VA Medical Center and University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁴University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ⁵University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁶Amgen, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, ⁷Division of Rheumatology, Salt Lake City VA Medical Center and University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Background/Purpose: Randomized controlled trials in RA have reported efficacy with both triple therapy (methotrexate [MTX] + hydroxychloroquine [HCQ] + sulfasalazine [SSZ]) and tumor necrosis factor…
Abstract Number: 2103 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Temporal Trends in Drug Prescription, Utilization and Costs Among Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Patients Show Wide Regional Variation Despite Universal Drug Coverage
Mark Tatangelo¹, Michael Paterson², George A. Tomlinson³, Nick Bansback⁴, Jessica Widdifield⁵, Tara Gomes² and Claire Bombardier⁶, ¹University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ⁵University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁶18 Strathearn Blvd, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Monitoring of drug use and costs can: describe trends in expenditures over time, identify regional variations in access and indicate physicians' uptake of best-practice…
Abstract Number: 2104 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Influence on Treatment Decision Making of Providing Numerical Ranges of Side-Effect Risks
Nick Bansback^1,2, Mark Harrison³, William G Dixon⁴ and Paul Han⁵, ¹Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ²School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ³Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcomes Sciences, St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ⁴Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, Arthritis Research UK Centre for Epidemiology, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ⁵Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME
Background/Purpose: Doctors and patients make treatment decisions after weighing benefits and harms. For harms, while people prefer treatments with smaller risks, how they react to…
Abstract Number: 2105 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Drug Survival and Cost Effectiveness in Patients on Reduced Dose Anti-TNF: Results of a 4 Year Prospective Observational Study
John Stack¹, Claire-Louise Murphy², Clara Bannon¹, Eithne Murphy¹, Trevor Duffy¹ and Maurice Barry¹, ¹Rheumatology, Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown, Dublin, Ireland, ²Rheumatology, Connolly Hospital Blanchardstow, Dublin, Ireland
Background/Purpose: Anti-TNF-α drugs are effective treatments for patients with inflammatory arthritis (IA). They are however expensive and their use carries a significant cost burden to…
Abstract Number: 2106 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Intensification to Triple Therapy Non-Biologic Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs for Rheumatoid Arthritis in the United States from 2009 to 2014
Jeffrey A. Sparks¹, Alexis A. Krumme², Olga S. Matlin³, Gregory Brill², William H. Shrank³, Niteesh K. Choudhry² and Daniel H. Solomon^2,4, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ³CVS Caremark, Woonsocket, RI, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Several trials suggest that triple therapy with non-biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (ttDMARD) has similar efficacy compared to biologic DMARDs (bDMARD) for patients with RA.…
Abstract Number: 2107 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Initiation of Combination Triple Therapy in Real World Clinical Practice Rarely Replicates the Protocols Used in Randomized Controlled Trials.
Grant W. Cannon¹, Chia-Chen Teng², Ted R. Mikuls³, Jeffrey R. Curtis⁴, Derek Tang⁵, Bradley S. Stolshek⁵ and Brian Sauer⁶, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Salt Lake City VA Medical Center and University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ²HSR&D SLC VA Medical Center and University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ³Veteran Affairs Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System and University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ⁴University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁵Amgen, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, ⁶Salt Lake City VA Medical Center and University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Background/Purpose: Combination therapy with methotrexate (MTX), sulfasalazine (SUL), and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) [triple therapy] is an effective treatment for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Randomized controlled trials…
Abstract Number: 2108 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
A Pragmatic Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial of an Automated, Pharmacy-Based Intervention to Optimize Allopurinol Therapy in Gout
Ted R. Mikuls¹, T C Cheetham², Nazia Rashid², Gerald D. Levy³, Artak Kerimian⁴, KJ Low², Brian Coburn⁵, David T. Redden⁶, S. Louis Bridges Jr.⁷, Kenneth G. Saag⁶ and Jeffrey R. Curtis⁷, ¹Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ²Pharmacy Analytical Services, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Downey, CA, ³Rheumatology, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Downey, CA, ⁴Ambulatory Care Pharmacy, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Downey, CA, ⁵Internal Medicine - Rheumatology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ⁶University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁷Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: Gout is a common form of inflammatory arthritis, often treated with allopurinol as a first-line urate lowering therapy. We have designed a large…
Abstract Number: 2109 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Racial Disparities in the Risk of Hospitalized Severe Allopurinol Hypersensitivity Syndrome – a US Nationwide Study (2009-2011)
Na Lu¹, Sharan K. Rai², Jeewoong Choi³ and Hyon K. Choi¹, ¹Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Experimental Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ³Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Allopurinol is the leading choice of urate-lowering therapy for gout (>95% of treated cases); however, it is associated with the rare but potentially fatal…
Abstract Number: 2110 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Imaging and Safety Assessments Following Treatment with Febuxostat and Placebo for 2 Years in Subjects with Early Gout
Nicola Dalbeth¹, Kenneth G. Saag², William Palmer³, Hyon Choi³, Barbara Hunt⁴, Patricia MacDonald⁴, Ulrich Thienel⁴ and Lhanoo Gunawardhana⁴, ¹Department of Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, ²Div Clinical Immun & Rheum, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ³Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁴Takeda Pharmaceuticals International, Deerfield, IL
Background/Purpose: No clinical trials had previously investigated the characteristics of joint damage in early gout or the benefit of instituting urate-lowering therapy (ULT) earlier in…
Abstract Number: 2111 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
A Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Arhalofenate for Preventing Flares and Reducing Serum Uric Acid in Gout Patients
Alexandra Steinberg¹, Harinder Chera¹, Yun-Jung Choi¹, Robert Martin¹, Charles McWherter¹, Yunbin Zhang², Pol Boudes¹ and on behalf of the Arhalofenate Anti-Flare Therapy Study Group, ¹Cymabay Therapeutics, Newark, CA, ²INC Research, Raleigh, NC
Background/Purpose: Arhalofenate is a novel Urate-Lowering Anti-Flare Therapy (ULAFT) to treat gout. It lowers serum uric acid (sUA) by blocking URAT1, a tubular UA transporter, and…
Abstract Number: 2112 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Analysis of Gout Subjects Receiving Lesinurad and Allopurinol Combination Therapy By Baseline Renal Function
Kenneth G. Saag¹, Thomas Bardin², Alexander So^3,4, Puja Khanna⁵, Chris Storgard⁶, Scott Baumgartner⁷, Maple Fung⁷, Nihar Bhakta⁷, Scott Adler⁸, Jeff Kopicko⁷ and Michael A. Becker⁹, ¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²Lariboisière Hospital, Paris, France, ³Rheumatology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, ⁴CHU Vaudois, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, ⁵Division of Rheumatology/Dept. of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁶4939 Directors Place, Ardea Biosciences, Inc., San Diego, CA, ⁷Ardea Biosciences, Inc., San Diego, CA, ⁸AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, Wilmington, DE, ⁹University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Background/Purpose: Two randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase III clinical trials showed that lesinurad (200 or 400 mg) when added to allopurinol (200-900 mg) significantly increased the…
Abstract Number: 2113 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Lesinurad, a Novel Selective Uric Acid Reabsorption Inhibitor, in Combination with Febuxostat, in Patients with Tophaceous Gout
Nicola Dalbeth¹, Graeme Jones², Robert Terkeltaub³, Dinesh Khanna⁴, Jeff Kopicko⁵, Nihar Bhakta⁵, Maple Fung⁵, Chris Storgard⁶, Scott Baumgartner⁵ and Fernando Perez-Ruiz⁷, ¹Department of Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, ²Musculoskeletal Unit, Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, ³Medicine-Rheumatology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, ⁴Div of Rheumatology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁵Ardea Biosciences, Inc., San Diego, CA, ⁶4939 Directors Place, Ardea Biosciences, Inc., San Diego, CA, ⁷Servicio de Reumatologia, Hospital Universitario Cruces, Baracaldo, Spain
Background/Purpose: Lesinurad (LESU; RDEA594) is a selective uric acid reabsorption inhibitor (SURI) being investigated for the treatment of gout in combination with a xanthine oxidase…
Abstract Number: 2114 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Higher Total Knee Arthroplasty Revision Rates in Black Americans: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis
Anne R. Bass¹, Kelly McHugh¹, Kara Fields^2,3, Rie Smethurst⁴, Michael Parks⁵ and Susan M. Goodman¹, ¹Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ²Medicine/Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ³Biostatistics, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ⁴Education - Academic Training, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ⁵Orthopedics, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Utilization of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is lower among blacks than whites in the United States (U.S.), which may be due to blacks' perception…

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