Abstracts tagged "axial spondyloarthritis and body mass"

Abstract Number: 2888 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Concomitant Csdmards Influence Clinical Response to TNF Inhibitors Only in Overweight Patients with Axial Spondyloarthritis
Borja Hernández-Breijo¹, Victoria Navarro-Compán¹, Ana Martínez¹, Andrea Jochems¹, Alejandro Villalba², Diana Peiteado³, Eva L. Kneepkens⁴, Gerrit Wolbink⁴, Theo Rispens⁵, Dora Pascual-Salcedo¹, Alejandro Balsa¹ and Chamaida Plasencia¹, ¹Immuno-Rheumatology research group, IdiPaz. La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain, ²Rheumatology, La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain, ³Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain, ⁴Rheumatology, Reade, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ⁵Immunopathology, Sanquin Research, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: In patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA), the use of conventional synthetic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (csDMARDs), such as methotrexate (MTX) and sulfasalazine (SSZ), as well…
Abstract Number: 558 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Therapeutic Response in Adalimumab-Treated Patients with Non-Radiographic Axial Spondyloarthritis Is Similar Regardless of Body Mass Index
Philip J. Mease¹, Denis Poddubnyy², Su Chen³ and Jaclyn K. Anderson³, ¹Swedish Medical Center and University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ²Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ³AbbVie Inc., North Chicago, IL
Background/Purpose: C-reactive protein (CRP), an objective measure of active inflammation, has been associated with obesity, with both overweight and obese individuals more likely to have…