Abstracts tagged "asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease"

Abstract Number: 186 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, and Subsequent Risk for Incident Rheumatoid Arthritis Among Women: A Prospective Cohort Study
Julia Ford¹, Xinyi Liu ¹, Su H. Chu ², Bing Lu ¹, Michael Cho ¹, Edwin Silverman ¹, Karen Costenbader ¹, Carlos Camargo ³ and Jeffrey Sparks ¹, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ³Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: While RA patients are known to have excess respiratory morbidity and mortality, less is known about the role of chronic respiratory diseases in the…