Abstracts tagged "ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and longitudinal studies"

Abstract Number: 1743 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Gender Differences in Ankylosing Spondylitis: Men Derive Greater Benefit from Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha Inhibitors
Jennifer Mandal¹, Michael M. Ward², Michael Weisman³, Jillian Simard⁴, Matthew A. Brown⁵, MinJae Lee⁶, Mohammad H. Rahbar⁷, John D. Reveille⁸ and Lianne S. Gensler⁹, ¹Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²NIH/NIAMS, Bethesda, MD, ³Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁵The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Brisbane, Australia, ⁶Biostatistics/Epidemiology/Research Design (BERD) Core | Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, ⁷The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, ⁸Rheumatology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, ⁹Medicine/Rheumatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) manifests differently in men and women. Women with AS have less severe radiographic disease, yet tend to report more severe symptoms.…