Abstracts tagged "Aging"

Abstract Number: 2218 • ACR Convergence 2022
Frailty Is Associated with Serious Infections in Biologic and Targeted-synthetic DMARD Treated Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Namrata Singh¹, Laura Gold², Katherine Wysham³, James Andrews², Pankti Reid⁴, Una Makris⁵, Bryant England⁶, Jiha Lee⁷, Michael George⁸, Joshua Baker⁹, Jeffrey Jarvik², Patrick Heagerty² and Siddharth Singh¹⁰, ¹University of Washington, Bellevue, WA, ²University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ³VA Puget Sound/University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ⁴University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, ⁵UT Southwestern Medical Center and Dallas VA, Dallas, TX, ⁶University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ⁷University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁸University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁹University of Pennsylvania and Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, ¹⁰University of California San Diego, San Diego
Background/Purpose: Recently, it has been recognized that frailty and pre-frailty are common in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) [1]. Whether frailty status portends an increased…
Abstract Number: 0227 • ACR Convergence 2022
The Rheumatology Workforce: Analyzing Geographic and Temporal Variations Among the Rheumatology Physician Workforce in the United States
Kavish Singh¹, Lynn Foster-Johnson², Sladjana Skopelja-Gardner³, Arabi Rasendrakumar⁴, Temitope Ajayi⁵ and Aakanksha Khanna⁶, ¹Montefiore Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, ²Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine, Lebanon, NH, ³Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, ⁴University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, ⁵University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, ⁶Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
Background/Purpose: To analyze recent trends in the rheumatology workforce related to temporal and national geographic variation in the United States (US). Methods: The publicly available physician workforce…
Abstract Number: 2226 • ACR Convergence 2022
Accelerated Aging Based on Blood DNA Methylation in SLE Participants Compared to Healthy Controls
Joanne Nitithalm¹, Olivia Solomon², Laura Trupin³, Patricia Katz⁴, Jinoos Yazdany⁴, Maria Dall'Era⁵, Lisa F Barcellos², Lindsey Criswell⁶ and Cristina M Lanata⁷, ¹NIH/NHGRI, Bethesda, MD, ²University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, ³UC San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁴UCSF, San Rafael, CA, ⁵University of California, Division of Rheumatology, San Francisco, CA, ⁶National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, ⁷NIH/NHGRI, Washington, DC
Background/Purpose: Epigenetic clocks based on DNA methylation in blood have been shown to correlate with biological aging and predict adverse health outcomes, including mortality. Accelerated…
Abstract Number: 0268 • ACR Convergence 2022
Risks of Mortality in Elderly-onset Rheumatoid Arthritis: Analysis from the TRA Clinical Electronic Registry
Ching-Tsai Lin¹, Wen-Nan Huang¹, Yi-Hsin Chen² and Yi-Ming Chen³, ¹Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, ²Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, ³Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
Background/Purpose: Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were associated with increased mortality rate. Our study aimed to investigate the risk factors associated with all causes of…
Abstract Number: 0281 • ACR Convergence 2022
Clinical Outcomes of Filgotinib in Patients with RA Aged ≥65 Years: A Post Hoc Subgroup Analysis of Phase 2 and 3 Clinical Trials and Ongoing Long-Term Extensions
Maya Buch¹, BERNARD COMBE², Jose A Gomez-Puerta³, Roberto Felice Caporali⁴, jacques-eric gottenberg⁵, Paul Van Hoek⁶, Vijay Rajendran⁷, Pieter-Jan Stiers⁶, Katrien Van Beneden⁶, Daniel Aletaha⁸, Gerd Burmester⁹, Rene Westhovens¹⁰ and Yoshiya Tanaka¹¹, ¹University of Manchester and NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom, ²Montpellier University, Montpellier, France, ³Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ⁴University of Milan, Milano, Italy, ⁵Strasbourg University Hospital, Strasbourg, France, ⁶Galapagos NV, Mechelen, Belgium, ⁷Galapagos NV, Gent, Belgium, ⁸Medical University Vienna, Wien, Austria, ⁹Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ¹⁰University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, ¹¹University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyusyu Fukuoka, Japan
Background/Purpose: Filgotinib (FIL) is a Janus kinase 1 preferential inhibitor approved for the treatment of moderate to severe active RA.1 It was previously reported that…
Abstract Number: 0529 • ACR Convergence 2022
Complex Relationships Between Inflammation and Clonal Hematopoiesis in Systemic Vasculitis
Adrianna Jones¹, Kristina Wells¹, Fernanda Gutierrez-Rodrigues², Cameron Rankin³, Wanxia Tsai³, Bhavisha Patel⁴, Kaitlin Quinn¹, Dalton Hironaka², Massimo Gadina⁵, Keith Sikora¹, Neal Young² and Peter Grayson⁶, ¹National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, ²National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, ³NIAMS/NIH, Bethesda, MD, ⁴National Institutes of Health, Beltsville, MD, ⁵Translational Immunology Section, NIAMS, NIH, Bethesda, MD, ⁶National Institutes of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP) is defined by somatic mutations in a set of genes commonly associated with myeloid neoplasms in an otherwise…
Abstract Number: 0574 • ACR Convergence 2022
Osteoporosis in Elderly Men; An Underestimated and Underdiagnosed Morbid Entity
Arash Mollaeian¹ and Stanley Ballou², ¹Metro Health Medical Center/Case Western Reserve University, Rocky River, OH, ²Case Western Reserve University - Metro Health, Cleveland, OH
Background/Purpose: 20-25% of osteoporosis-related fractures occur in men and the mortality of osteoporotic fractures is higher in men [1]. Nevertheless, no uniform consensus exists for…
Abstract Number: 1091 • ACR Convergence 2021
Serum Metabolomic Profiling Identifies Potential Biomarkers in Arthritis in the Elderly
Martha Cedeno¹, Jessica Murillo Saich¹, Roxana Coras², Anahy Maria Brandy-Garcia³, Agueda Prior-Español⁴, Lourdes Mateo⁵, Melania Martinez-Morillo⁵ and Monica Guma⁶, ¹University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, ²University of California San Diego/Department of Medicine, Autonomous University of Barcelona, San Diego, CA, ³Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain, ⁴Department of Rheumatology, Germans Trias i Pujol. University Hospital, Badalona, Spain, ⁵Department of Rheumatology, Germans Trias i Pujol. University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain, ⁶University of California San Diego/San Diego VA Healthcare Service/Department of Medicine, Autonomous University of Barcelona, La Jolla, CA
Background/Purpose: Elderly-onset RA (EORA) and polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) are common rheumatic diseases in the elderly, but their pathogenesis is not yet fully understood. Seronegative EORAneg…
Abstract Number: 1145 • ACR Convergence 2021
Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Vertebral Fractures and Low Bone Mass Density Among Women Aging with HIV in Peru
Diego Cabrera¹, Mijahil P. Cornejo², Rebecca Slotkin³, Yvett Pinedo⁴, Wei Yu⁵, Wenmin Guan⁵, Patricia J. Garcia⁶ and Evelyn Hsieh⁷, ¹Yale School of Medicine, Lima, Peru, ²Grunenthal peruana, Lima, Peru, ³Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, ⁴Hospital Nacional Arzobispo Loayza, Lima, Peru, ⁵Department of Radiology, Chinese Academy of Medicine Sciences and Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China (People's Republic), ⁶Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru, ⁷Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Background/Purpose: Few studies in Latin America and the Caribbean have evaluated osteoporosis and fracture epidemiology among populations at increased risk for secondary osteoporosis, such as…
Abstract Number: 1147 • ACR Convergence 2021
Therapeutic Inertia and Low Patient Compliance: Major Contributors to Low Treatment Rates in Patients with Osteoporosis with Clinical Vertebral Compression Fractures
Shiva Malaty, Paramvir Sidhu, Rustan Sharer and Soo Yeon Kim, HonorHealth Internal Medicine Residency, Scottsdale, AZ
Background/Purpose: Treatment rates with pharmacologic therapy after osteoporotic vertebral fracture are very low in the United States. Underlying causes of these low treatment rates are…
Abstract Number: 1392 • ACR Convergence 2021
Assessment of a Patient Self-Report Frailty Tool in Patients with Polymyalgia Rheumatica
Sebastian Sattui, Deanna Jannat-Khah, Lindsay Lally, Sarah Lieber, Lisa Mandl and Robert Spiera, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Frailty, a syndrome characterized by decreased physiologic reserve, is associated with chronic inflammation. We have shown a high prevalence of frailty in patients with…
Abstract Number: 1514 • ACR Convergence 2021
Age-related Metabolic Reprogramming of Memory CD4+ T Cells Is Associated with Reactive Oxygen Species-induced Immune Cell Dysfunction
Yuling Chen¹, Pierre-Louis Krau², Pelle Löwe³, Moritz Pfeiffenberger⁴, Lisa Ehlers³, Alexandra Damerau⁴, Paula Hoff³, Frank Buttgereit⁵ and Timo Gaber⁴, ¹Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ²Charit Universittsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universitt Berlin, Humboldt-Universitt zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Berlin, Germany, ³Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Berlin, Germany, ⁴Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ⁵Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Background/Purpose: Inflamm-aging is a sterile, low-grade, chronic systemic inflammatory state characterized by an increase in proinflammatory cytokines involved in the development of most age-related diseases…
Abstract Number: 0158 • ACR Convergence 2021
The Influence of Age on the Prevalence of Inflammatory and Post-inflammatory MRI Lesions in the Sacroiliac Joints of Patients with and Without Axial Spondyloarthritis
Xenofon Baraliakos, Styliani Tsiami, Anna Kühn, Martin Fruth and Jürgen Braun, Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet Herne, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Herne, Germany
Background/Purpose: Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) is clinically characterized by chronic inflammatory back pain and by inflammatory and structural changes in the sacroiliac joint (SIJ) as assessed…
Abstract Number: 1678 • ACR Convergence 2021
Favorable Balance of Benefit and Harm of Long-Term, Low Dose Prednisolone Added to Standard Treatment in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Aged 65+: The Pragmatic, Multicenter, Placebo-Controlled GLORIA Trial
Maarten Boers¹, Linda Hartman¹, Daniela Opris-Belinski², Reinhard Bos³, Marc Kok⁴, Jose Pereira da Silva⁵, Ed Griep⁶, Ruth Klaasen⁷, Cornelia F. Allaart⁸, Paul Baudoin⁹, Hennie Raterman¹⁰, Zoltan Szekanecz¹¹, Frank Buttgereit¹², Pavol Masaryk¹³, L. Thomas Klausch¹, Sabrina Paolino¹⁴, Annemarie Schilder³, Willem Lems¹⁵ and Maurizio Cutolo¹⁴, ¹Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ²Carol Davila University, Bucharest, Romania, ³Medical Center Leeuwarden, Leeuwarden, Netherlands, ⁴Maasstad Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ⁵University of Coimbra | UC · Clínica Universitária de Reumatologia. Faculty of Medicine, Columbia, Portugal, ⁶Antonius Hospital, Sneek, Netherlands, ⁷Meander Medical Center, Amersfoort, Netherlands, ⁸Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁹Reumazorg Flevoland, Emmeloord, Netherlands, ¹⁰Northwest Clinics, Alkmaar, Netherlands, ¹¹Division of Rheumatology, University of Debrecen, Faculty of Medicine, Debrecen, Hungary, ¹²Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ¹³National Institute for the Rheumatic Diseases, Bratislava, Slovakia, ¹⁴Laboratory of Experimental Rheumatology and Academic Division of Clinical Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genova, IRCCS Polyclinic San Martino Hospital, Genoa, Italy, ¹⁵VUmc, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Low-dose glucocorticoid (GC) therapy is widely used in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) but the balance of benefit and harm is still unclear. We studied the…
Abstract Number: 0352 • ACR Convergence 2021
Native American and African American Rheumatic Disease Patients Exhibit Accelerated Biological Aging Compared to European Americans
Joseph Kheir, Carla Guthridge, Nicolas Dominguez, Wade DeJager, Sarah Cooper, Joel Guthridge and Judith James, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK
Background/Purpose: The universal process of aging is associated with increased risk of disease and death as a result of changing physiologic and molecular processes. In…