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  • Abstract Number: 1900 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    HLA-DRB1*1101, Regulatory Variants of the MHC, and a Regulatory Region Near an Intergenic Long Noncoding RNA on Chromosome 1 Are Risk Factors for Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

    Michael J. Ombrello1, Elaine F. Remmers2, Ioanna Tachmazidou3, Alexei Grom4, Dirk Föll5, Alberto Martini6, Marco Gattorno7, Seza Ozen8, Sampath Prahalad9,10, Andrew S. Zeft11, John F. Bohnsack12, Norman T. Ilowite13, Jane L. Park14, Elizabeth D. Mellins15, Ricardo A. G. Russo16, Claudio A. Len17, Sheila K. Feitosa de Oliveira18, Rae SM Yeung19, Lucy R. Wedderburn20,21, Jordi Anton22, Tobias Schwarz23, Buhm Han24, Richard H. Duerr25, Jean-Paul Achkar26, M. Ilyas Kamboh27, Kenneth M. Kaufman28, Leah C. Kottyan28, Dalila Pinto29, Stephen Scherer30, Marta E. Alarcón-Riquelme31, Elisa Docampo Martinez32, Xavier Estivill33, Ahmet Gul34, Colleen Satorius35, Paul I.W. de Bakker36,37,38, Soumya Raychaudhuri37,39,40, Carl D. Langefeld41, Susan D. Thompson42, Eleftheria Zeggini3, Wendy Thomson43, Daniel L. Kastner44, Patricia Woo45 and International Childhood Arthritis Genetics (INCHARGE) Consortium, 1Translational Genetics and Genomics Unit, National Institute of Arthritis Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 2Inflammatory Disease Section, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 3The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 4Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 5Pediatric Rheumatology and Immunology, University Children's Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany, 6University of Genova, Genova, Italy, 7Pediatric Rheumatology, Instituto Giannina Gaslini, Genoa, Italy, 8Deptartment. of Pediatric Rheumatology, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey, 9Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 10Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, 11Pediatrics Rheumatology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, 12Pediatriacs, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 13Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 14Pediatric Rheumatology, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA, 15Dept of Pediatrics CCSR, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA, 16Immunology & Rheumatology, Hospital de Pediatria Garrahan, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 17Universidade Federal de São Paulo/Escola Paulista de Medicina, São Paulo, Brazil, 18Pediatric Rheumatology, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 19Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, 20University College London (UCL) Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom, 21Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, United Kingdom, 22Pediatric Rheumatology Unit. Hospital Sant Joan de Déu. Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 23Pediatric rheumathology and osteology, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany, 24Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, 25Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 26Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, 27Department of Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 28Center for Autoimmune Genomics and Etiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 29Genetics and Genomi Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 30The Centre for Applied Genomics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, 31Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, 32Unit of Animal Genomics, GIGA-Université de Liège, LIege, Belgium, 33Genetic Causes of Disease Laboratory, Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain, 34Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey, 35National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD, 36Brighan and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 37Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, 38University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, 39Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 40Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom, 41Center for Public Health Genomics and Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, 42Division and Center for Autoimmune Disease Genomics and Etiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 43Institute of Inflammation and Repair, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, 44Inflammatory Disease Section, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD, 45Paediatric Rheumatology Unit, University College London, London, United Kingdom

    Background/Purpose: Systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (sJIA) is a severe inflammatory disease of unknown etiology.  We utilized a genomic approach to interrogate the molecular pathogenesis of…
  • Abstract Number: 1899 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Blockade of Interleukin-33 Signaling Prevents Death in a Mouse Model of Familial Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis

    Julia Rood1, Portia Kreiger2, Erietta Stelekati1, E. John Wherry1 and Edward M. Behrens3, 1Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2Pathology, Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE, 3Rheumatology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

    Background/Purpose Cytokine storm syndromes, such as macrophage activation syndrome and familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (FHL), represent important causes of mortality in pediatric rheumatology. Studies of a…
  • Abstract Number: 1898 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Identification of “autoinflammatory interferonopathies”?   a New Class of Autoinflammatory Conditions?

    Adriana Almeida de Jesus1, Zuoming Deng2, Stephen Brooks3, Yin Liu4, Hanna Kim4, Gina A. Montealegre Sanchez4, Dawn C. Chapelle4, Yan Huang4, Philip Hashkes5, Gulnara Nasrullayeva6, Maria Teresa Terreri7, Bita Arabshahi8, Marilynn G. Punaro9, Lakshmi N. Moorthy10, Adam Reinhardt11, Clovis A. Silva12, Emilia I. Sato13, Vibke Lilleby14, Thomas Fleisher15 and Raphaela Goldbach-Mansky4, 1Translational Autoinflammatory Disease Section, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 2Biodata Mining and Discovery Section, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 3NIAMS/NIH, Bethesda, MD, 4Translational Autoinflammatory Diseases Section, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 5Pediatric Rheumatology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel, 6Head Immunology Department, Azerbaijan Medical University, Baku, Azerbaijan, 7University of Federal De Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 8Pediatric Rheumatology, Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children, Fairfax, VA, 9Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 10Pediatric Rheumatology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School-Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 11Pediatric Rheumatology, Children's Specialty Physicians, Omaha, NE, 12Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, 13Rheumatology Div/Dept of Med, Escola Paulista de Medicina - Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 14Department of Rheumatology, Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, 15Chief Department of Laboratory Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

    Background/Purpose The role of IL-1 in the pathogenesis of many of the monogenic autoinflammatory diseases is clinically validated by the response to IL-1 blocking therapies.…
  • Abstract Number: 1897 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Circulating T-Helper Cell- Associated Cytokines and Chemokines in Localized Scleroderma

    Kathryn S. Torok1, Katherine Kurzinski2, Christina Kelsey3, Kelsey Magee4, Jonathan Yabes5, Abbe N. Vallejo6, Thomas A. Medsger Jr.7 and Carol A. Feghali-Bostwick8, 1Pediatric Rheumatology, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, 2Pediatric Rheumatology, Univ of Pittsburgh Med Ctr, Pittsburgh, PA, 3Pediatric Rheumatology, University of Pittsburgh/UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, 4Pediatric Rheumatology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 5Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 6Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 7Medicine/Rheumatology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 8Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

    Background/Purpose: Localized scleroderma (LS) is an autoimmune disease of the skin and underlying tissues which results in disfigurement and orthopedic complications, especially when the onset…
  • Abstract Number: 1880 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Moderate Alcohol Consumption Is Associated with Lower Risk (and severity) of Chronic Widespread Pain: Results from a Population-Based Study

    Gary J. Macfarlane and Marcus Beasley, Musculoskeletal Research Collaboration (Epidemiology Group), University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

    Background/Purpose: Amongst patients with fibromyalgia, alcohol consumption has been reported in a single clinical study to be associated with lower severity of symptoms. This study…
  • Abstract Number: 1879 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    The Efficacy of Pregabalin for Treating Fibromyalgia Patients with Moderate or Severe Baseline Widespread Pain

    Andrew Clair and Birol Emir, Pfizer Inc, New York, NY

    Background/Purpose: Pregabalin has demonstrated efficacy for the treatment of fibromyalgia (FM), but insufficient evidence exists on how the efficacy of pregabalin may differ by baseline…
  • Abstract Number: 1878 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    A Combination of Celecoxib and Famciclovir Is Efficacious in the Treatment of Fibromyalgia: Results of a Phase IIa Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study

    William Pridgen1, Carol Duffy2, Judith Gendreau3 and R Michael Gendreau3, 1Innovative Med Concepts, Tuscaloosa, AL, 2Biological Sciences, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, 3Gendreau Consulting, LLC, Poway, CA

    Background/Purpose: Fibromyalgia (FM) is a common chronic pain syndrome with symptoms that include widespread pain, fatigue, sleep disruption and cognitive impairment.  It is known that…
  • Abstract Number: 1877 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Pregnancy Outcomes in SLE: Before and after

    Elizabeth V. Arkema1, Kristin Palmsten2, Christopher Sjöwall3, Elisabet Svenungsson4, Jane E. Salmon5 and Julia F Simard6, 1Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, 2Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 3Deparment of clinical and experimental medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, 4Department of Medicine, Rheumatology Unit, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, 5Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, 6Division of Epidemiology, Health Research and Policy Department, and Division of Immunology & Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA

    Background/Purpose: Numerous investigators have demonstrated that the risks of pre-eclampsia, preterm delivery, and fetal death are increased in lupus pregnancies. Adverse events during pregnancy, delivery,…
  • Abstract Number: 1876 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Influence of Alcohol Consumption on the Risk of SLE Among Women in the Nurses’ Health Studies

    Medha Barbhaiya, Bing Lu, Shun-Chiao Chang, Jeffrey A. Sparks, Elizabeth W. Karlson and Karen H. Costenbader, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

    Background/Purpose: Prior case-control studies have reported an inverse association between moderate alcohol consumption and the development of SLE. However, case-control studies may be prone to…
  • Abstract Number: 1875 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Can Allopurinol Survival Impact Reverse Depending on Patients’ Characteristics? a Propensity-Score-Based Subgroup Analysis

    Na Lu1, Hyon K. Choi2, Maureen Dubreuil3,4, Qiong Louie-Gao5 and Yuqing Zhang1, 1Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, 2Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 3Rheumatology, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA, 4Rheumatology, Boston VA HealthCare System, Boston, MA, 5Clinical Epidemiology Research & Training Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA

    Background/Purpose: Several studies have reported that allopurinol use is associated with a decreased risk of death or cardiovascular outcomes. While these studies reported the overall…
  • Abstract Number: 1874 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Obesity Paradox in Recurrent Gout – a Metrological Clarification and Remedy

    Uyen Sa D.T. Nguyen1,2, Qiong Louie-Gao3, Yuqing Zhang4, David T. Felson3, Michael P. Lavalley5 and Hyon K. Choi6, 1Orthopedics and Physical Rehabilitation, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, 2Clinical Epidemiology Research &Training Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, 3Clinical Epidemiology Research & Training Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, 4Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, 5Biostatistics, Boston University, Boston, MA, 6Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

    Background/Purpose: Obesity is a strong risk factor of incident gout, but previous research showed no such association with recurrent gout among gout patients. These paradoxical…
  • Abstract Number: 1873 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Food Sources of Protein and Risk of Incident Gout in the Singapore Chinese Health Study

    Gim Gee Teng1,2, An Pan3, Jian-Min Yuan4 and Woon-Puay Koh3,5, 1Division of Rheumatology, University Medicine Cluster, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore, 2Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, 3Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, 4Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, and Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA, 5Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Background/Purpose: The Health Professional Follow up Study in Caucasian men showed that intakes of meat and seafood increased risk of gout, while dairy products, especially…
  • Abstract Number: 1872 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Gout in Older Adult

    Mara McAdams-DeMarco1, Anna Kottgen2, Bridget Burke3, Andrew Law4, Josef Coresh1 and Alan N. Baer5, 1Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, 2Renal Division, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, 3Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 4Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, 5Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

    Background/Purpose: To evaluate whether traditional and genetic risk factors in middle-aged members of a longitudinal population-based cohort predict the onset of gout in older age.…
  • Abstract Number: 1871 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Puberty and Disease Activity in JIA

    Philomine A. van Pelt1, Aike.a. Kruize2, Anita C.S. Hokken-Koelega3, Radboud JEM Dolhain4, Johannes WJ Bijlsma5 and Nico M. Wulffraat6, 1Rheumatology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, 3Pediatrics, Subdivision of Endocrinology, Erasmus Medical Center- Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 4Rheumatology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 5Dept of Rheumatology and Immunology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, 6Paediatric Immunology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

    Background/Purpose Delayed puberty and decreased final length has been reported in chronic diseases like Crohn's disease and JIA with a disease onset at prepubertal age.…
  • Abstract Number: 1870 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Children and Parent Satisfaction in the Pediatric Rheumatology Clinic:  Patient Orientated Quality Service Measures

    Jenny Tekano1, Lori B. Tucker2 and Audrea Chen3, 1Rheumatology, BC Children's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2Rheumatology, BC Children's Hospital and University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 3research student, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Background/Purpose Patient satisfaction is a multidimensional concept, and is a component of quality care. Inclusion of patient experience with care is highly relevant in improving…
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