ACR Meeting Abstracts
Abstract Number: 1327 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2013
Aase Haj Hensvold1, Vijay Joshua1, Saedis Saevarsdottir2, Michaela Larkin2, Lena Israelsson2, Ferhan Qureshi3, Per-Johan Jakobsson2, Nadine A. Defranoux4, Lars Klareskog2, Vivianne Malmström5 and Anca I Catrina2, 1Medicine, Rheumatology Unit, Karolinska University Hospital, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, 2Medicine, Rheumatology unit, Karolinska University Hospital, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, 3Crescendo Bioscience, Inc., South San Francisco, CA, 4Crescendo Bioscience Inc., South San Francisco, CA, 5Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Background/Purpose: Antibodies against citrullinated proteins (especially anti citrullinated-vimentin antibodies) and high levels of RANKL have been linked to altered bone metabolism in early RA. We…