Abstracts tagged "Abatacept and tuberculosis"

Abstract Number: 558 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Tuberculosis Risk Among Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis in a United States Claims Database Initiating Abatacept and Other Biologic Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs: Analyses Using International Classification of Diseases Codes and a Published Claims Algorithm
N Baker¹, S Suissa², H Kawabata¹, M Skovron³, V Moorthy⁴ and TA Simon¹, ¹Bristol-Myers Squibb, Hopewell, NJ, ²McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ³Epidemiologist, Lawrenceville, NJ, ⁴Mu Sigma, Northbrook, IL
Background/Purpose: Tuberculosis (TB), a reportable disease world-wide, is rare in the US (2013 incidence rate [IR]: 3 cases per 100,000 persons)1 and is an event…