Abstracts tagged "African-Americans and rheumatoid arthritis (RA)"

Abstract Number: 363 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014

Increased Prevalence of Plasma Anti-Nuclear, Anti-SSA, and Connective Tissue Disease Associated Antibodies in African American Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Rayford R. June¹, Douglas P. Landsittel², Bruce Rabin³, S. Louis Bridges Jr.⁴, CLEAR Investigators⁵, TEAR Investigators⁵, Thomas A. Medsger Jr.⁶ and Larry W. Moreland⁶, ¹Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ²Medicine, Biostatistics and Clinical and Translational Science, University of Pittsburgh, Center for Health Care Research Data Center, Pittsburgh, PA, ³Pathology, Division of Clinical Immunopathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁴Division of Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁵University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁶Medicine, Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA