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Abstract Number: 1548 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Comparison of 5 Cardiovascular Risk Calculators in a Hispanic Rheumatoid Arthritis Cohort
Alberto Cardenas-de La Garza¹, Raymundo Vera-Pineda², Dionicio A. Galarza-Delgado¹, Jose Ramon Azpiri-Lopez³, Iris J. Colunga-Pedraza¹, Griselda Serna-Peña⁴ and Mario Alberto Garza-Elizondo¹, ¹Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario, UANL., Monterrey, Mexico, ²Cardiology., Hospital Universitario, UANL., Monterrey, Mexico, ³Cardiology, Hospital Universitario, UANL., Monterrey, Mexico, ⁴Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitario, UANL., Monterrey, Mexico
Background/Purpose: Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) is the leading cause of death in RA. Management and stratification of ASCVD in RA patients is still a matter…
Abstract Number: 1549 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Prevalence of Co-Morbidities and Evaluation of Their Monitoring in Korean Patients with RA: Comparison with the Results of an International, Cross-Sectional Study (COMORA)
In Ah Choi¹, Sung-Hwan Park², Hoon-Suk Cha³, Won Park⁴, Hyun Ah Kim⁵, Dae-Hyun Yoo⁶, Han Joo Baek⁷, SeungGeun Lee⁸, Yoon Jong Lee⁹, Yong Bum Park¹⁰, Seung-Cheol Shim¹¹, Ihsane Hmamouchi¹² and Yeong Wook Song¹³, ¹Rheumatology, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea, ²Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, Seoul, South Korea, ³Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Inha University Hospital, Incheon, South Korea, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Anyang, South Korea, ⁶Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hanyang University Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Seoul, South Korea, ⁷Rheumatology, Gachon University Gil Medical Center, Incheon, South Korea, ⁸Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Pusan Nationl University Hospital, Busan, South Korea, ⁹Division of rheumatology Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, South Korea, ¹⁰Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yoesei University Severance Hospital, Seoul, South Korea, ¹¹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Eulji University Hospital, Daejeon, South Korea, ¹²El Ayachi Hospital, Rabat, Morocco, ¹³Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) patients are at increased risk of developing co-morbid conditions. We designed this study to evaluate the prevalence of comorbidities and their…
Abstract Number: 1550 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Flares of Disease Activity As Risk Factor for the Occurrence of Myocardial Infarction in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Esmee Bakker¹, Pauline Geuijen², Beata Radovits¹, Delia Popa-Diaconu¹, Calin Popa¹, Elke Arts¹, Alfons A. den Broeder³ and Jaap Fransen¹, ¹Rheumatology, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands, ²Rheumatology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands, ³Rheumatology, Sint Maartenskliniek, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients have an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVD). The underlying mechanism is partly explained by the inflammation process in both…
Abstract Number: 1551 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Rheumatoid Vasculitis: A Decline in the XXI Century
Anne Riveros Frutos, Melania Martínez-Morillo, Samantha Rodriguez-Muguruza, Juana Sanint, Agueda Prior, Jeronima Cañellas, Susana Holgado, Maria Lourdes Mateo, Xavier Tena and Alejandro Olivé, Rheumatology, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Barcelona, Spain
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid vasculitis is an extra articular manifestation of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), that occurs during the course of long standing disease. It is associated with…
Abstract Number: 1552 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Illness Perceptions in Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Comparison of Canadian and Nigerian Patients
Susan J. Bartlett¹, Olufemi Adelowo², Maria Celia Bazan Bardales³ and Ines Colmegna⁴, ¹Medicine , Divisions of Clinical Epidemiology, Rheumatology, Respirology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ²Rheumatology, Arthrimed Specialist Clinic, Lagos, Nigeria, ³Rheumatology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁴McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Background/Purpose: Illness perceptions (IP) are the beliefs and expectations that an individual has about medical conditions. IP cluster around five coherent themes and provide a…
Abstract Number: 1553 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Effect of Drug Therapy on Net Cholesterol Efflux Capacity of HDL-Enriched Serum in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Michelle J. Ormseth¹, S. Louis Bridges Jr.², Jeffrey R. Curtis³, Joseph F. Solus⁴, Patricia Yancey⁵, MacRae F. Linton⁶, Sean Davies⁶, L Jackson Roberts II⁷, Kasey C. Vickers⁶, Valentina Kon⁶, Sergio Fazio⁸, C Michael Stein⁶ and TETRAD Investigators, ¹Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, ²Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ³University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁴Clinical Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, ⁵Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, ⁶Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, ⁷Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, ⁸Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR
Background/Purpose: Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have increased coronary heart disease risk. Some RA therapies may modify this risk, but underlying mechanisms are unclear. The…
Abstract Number: 1554 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Severe Pneumonia after a 13-Prevalent Pneumonoccal Conjugate Vaccine (Prevena 13) Among Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Sung Hae Chang¹ and Seong-Su Nah², ¹internal medicine, seoul national university, seoul, South Korea, ²Soonchunhyang clinical medical research center, Department of Soonchunhyang clinical medical research center, Choenan, South Korea
Background/Purpose: Disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) including methotrexate (MTX) and biologics were ported to attenuate response to a previous 23-prevalent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine. Recently, a…
Abstract Number: 1555 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Geography and the Influence of Comorbidity on the Prevalence of Depression in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis,a Study Across Seventeen Countries
Raluca Dumitru¹, Elizabeth M.A. Hensor², Ihsane Hmamouchi³, Paul Emery², Maxime Dougados⁴ and Maya H. Buch⁵, ¹University of Leeds, Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine and LMBRU, Leeds, United Kingdom, ²Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, ³El Ayachi Hospital, Rabat, Morocco, ⁴Service de Rhumatologie B, GHU Cochin, F-75014 France, PARIS, France, ⁵Division of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Disease, University of Leeds, Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine and LMBRU, Leeds, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Comorbidities represent a major challenge for patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Depression is one of the most common comorbidities with prevalence up to 38%. Disease…
Abstract Number: 1556 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Medication Information-Seeking Behaviors of Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Who Are Prescribed a New DMARD
Delesha Carpenter¹, Lorie Geryk², Courtney Arrindell³, Beth Jonas⁴ and Susan J. Blalock⁵, ¹Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy, University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Asheville, NC, ²Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy, University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Chapel Hill, NC, ³University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁴Thurston Arthritis Research Ct, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁵School of Pharmacy, UNC at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Background/Purpose: We present preliminary longitudinal data about the information-seeking behaviors and medication experiences of RA patients who are prescribed a new DMARD. Methods: We recruited…
Abstract Number: 1557 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Impact of Hindfoot Deformity on Disability of Korean Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Hye-Jin Jeong¹, Il Woong Sohn¹, Seung Lee¹, Seung Taek Song¹, Soo-Kyung Cho² and Yoon-Kyoung Sung², ¹Hanyang University Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Seoul, South Korea, ²Department of Rheumatology, Hanyang University Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Seoul, South Korea
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) commonly involves the hindfoot, but this part is frequently overlooked when caring for patients with multiple joints pain and deformity. For…
Abstract Number: 1558 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Serum Cathepsin S and Cystatin C Relation with Carotid Subclinical Atheromatosis in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients
Beatriz Tejera Segura¹, De Vera-González AM², Raquel López-Mejías³, Miguel A. Gonzalez-Gay⁴ and Ivan Ferraz-Amaro¹, ¹Division of Rheumatology, University Hospital of Canary Islands, Tenerife, Spain, ²Central Laboratory Division, University Hospital of Canary Islands, Tenerife, Spain, ³Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla. IFIMAV, Santander, Spain, ⁴Reumatologia, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, IDIVAL, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disease associated with increased cardiovascular risks. Cathepsin S, a cysteine protease implicated in intracellular and extracellular proteolysis,…
Abstract Number: 1559 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Clinical Characteristics and Medication Use Among Arab Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis in Some Arab States
Karim Bayoumy¹, Soha Roger Dargham¹, Wessam Elhaq¹, Samar Al Emadi², Mohammed Hammoudeh², Basel Masri³, Hussein Halabi⁴, Humeira Badsha⁵, Imad Uthman⁶, Salah Mahdy², Robert Plenge⁷, Richa Saxena⁷, Marianthi Kapiri¹ and Thurayya Arayssi⁸, ¹Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, Doha, Qatar, ²Medicine, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar, ³Jordan Hospital, Amman, Jordan, ⁴Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and research center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, ⁵Al Biraa Arthritis and Bone Clinic, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, ⁶Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, ⁷The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Program of Medical and Population Genetics, Cambridge, MA, ⁸Internal Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, Doha, Qatar
Background/Purpose: Data on the clinical and genetic characteristics of Arab patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is limited. Our aim is to report on the clinical…
Abstract Number: 1560 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Effect of Anti Estrogen Therapy (AET) on Rheumatoid Arthritis
Bassam Alhaddad¹, Amrita Kaur Bath², Bassem Zraik³, Mohamed Alalwani⁴ and Stanley P Ballou¹, ¹Rheumatology, Case Western Reserve University, MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, ²Internal medicine, Fairview Hospital- Cleveland Cinic, Cleveland, OH, ³Internal Medicine, Fairview Hospital- Cleveland Clinic, cleveland, OH, ⁴Hospital Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Background/Purpose: The well-known positive effect of pregnancy on improving Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) disease activity suggests that hormonal changes may play a role in disease pathogenesis…
Abstract Number: 1561 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Effect of TNF Blockers on Bone Mineral Density in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Receiving Bisphosphonate
Doo-Ho Lim¹, Seokchan Hong², Soo Min Ahn², Byeongzu Ghang³, Wook Jang Seo⁴, Yong-Gil Kim¹, Chang-Keun Lee¹ and Bin Yoo¹, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Department of Rheumatology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea, ²Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea, ³Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Univerisy of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea, ⁴Internal Medicine, Seoul Veterans Hospital, Seoul, South Korea
Background/Purpose: Osteoporosis is more frequently observed in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) than in general population. Bisphosphonate (BP), which suppresses bone resorption by inhibiting osteoclast…
Abstract Number: 1562 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Clinical Correlates, Outcomes and Predictors of Episcleritis and Scleritis Associated with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Cristian Caimmi¹, Wendy M. Smith², Cynthia S. Crowson³, Eric L. Matteson⁴ and Ashima Makol⁵, ¹Unit of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine,, University of Verona, Verona, Italy, ²Department of Ophthalmology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ³Division of Rheumatology and Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine and Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Background/Purpose: Inflammatory ocular disease (IOD) has traditionally been regarded as a severe extra-articular manifestation of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with high mortality. This study aims to…

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