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Abstracts tagged "African-Americans and systemic sclerosis"

  • Abstract Number: 946 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2017

    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…

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