Abstracts tagged "Anti-TNF therapy and fractures"

Abstract Number: 1960 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2012

Initiation of Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha (TNFα) Antagonists and Risk of Fractures in Patients with Selected Rheumatic and Autoimmune Diseases

Vivian K. Kawai¹, Carlos Grijalva², Patrick Arbogast², Jeffrey R. Curtis³, Daniel H. Solomon⁴, Elizabeth S. Delzell⁵, Lang Chen⁶, Lisa Herrinton⁷, Liyan Liu⁷, Edward F. Mitchell Jr.², C. Michael Stein⁸ and Marie Griffin², ¹Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, ²Preventive Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, ³Rheumatology & Immunology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁵Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁶Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁷Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA, ⁸School of Medicine, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, TN