Abstracts tagged "African-Americans and systemic sclerosis"

Abstract Number: 946 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Clinical and Serological Features of Systemic Sclerosis in a Multicenter African American Cohort: Analysis of the Genome Research in African American Scleroderma Patients Clinical Database
Nadia D. Morgan¹, Ami A. Shah¹, Maureen D. Mayes², Robyn T. Domsic³, Thomas A. Medsger Jr.⁴, Virginia D. Steen⁵, John Varga⁶, Mary A. Carns⁷, Paula S. Ramos⁸, Richard M. Silver⁹, Elena Schiopu¹⁰, Dinesh Khanna¹⁰, Vivien Hsu¹¹, Jessica K. Gordon¹², Heather Gladue¹³, Lesley A. Saketkoo¹⁴, Lindsey A. Criswell¹⁵, Chris T. Derk¹⁶, Marcin A. Trojanowski¹⁷, Victoria K. Shanmugam¹⁸, Lorinda Chung¹⁹, Antonia Valenzuela²⁰, Reem Jan²¹, Avram Goldberg²², Elaine F. Remmers²³, Daniel L. Kastner²³, Fredrick M. Wigley²⁴, Pravitt Gourh²⁵ and Francesco Boin²⁶, ¹Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²Rheumatology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, ³Medicine - Rheumatology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁴Department of Medicine/Rheumatology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, ⁶Rheumatology and Dermatology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine Scleroderma Program, Chicago, IL, ⁷Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine Scleroderma Program, Chicago, IL, ⁸Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ⁹Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ¹⁰University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ¹¹Rheumatology, Robert Wood Johnson University Scleroderma Program, New Brunswick, NJ, ¹²Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ¹³Rheumatology, Arthritis and Osteoporosis Consultants of the Carolinas, Charlotte, NC, ¹⁴Rheumatology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, ¹⁵Medicine/Rheumatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ¹⁶Rheumatology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ¹⁷Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ¹⁸Rheumatology, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, ¹⁹Division of Immunology and Rheumatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, ²⁰Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, ²¹Medicine, Rheumatology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ²²NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, ²³National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD, ²⁴Rheum Div/Mason F Lord, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ²⁵NIAMS-Rheumatology, National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, Bethesda, MD, ²⁶Rheumatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Racial differences exist in the severity of systemic sclerosis (SSc). To enhance our knowledge about SSc in African Americans, we established a comprehensive clinical…