Abstracts tagged "biomarkers and lipids"

Abstract Number: 629 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2012
Inflammatory Biomarkers of Atherosclerosis and Oxidative Stress Are Associated with Disease Flare in SLE
Maureen A. McMahon¹, Jennifer M. Grossman¹, Brian Skaggs², Elaine Lourenco², Cheryl Lee¹, Lori Sahakian³, John FitzGerald⁴, Christina Charles-Schoeman⁵, Alan H. Gorn⁶, George A. Karpouzas⁷, Michael H. Weisman⁸, Daniel J. Wallace⁹, Weiling Chen¹ and Bevra H. Hahn⁶, ¹Div of Rheumatology, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ²Medicine/Rheumatology, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ³Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine,, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Medicine-Rheumatology, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ⁵University of California, Los Angeles, CA, ⁶Rheumatology, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ⁷Rheumatology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, ⁸Rheumatology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁹Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Background/Purpose: Although our current serologic measures of disease activity are useful for predicting flare in some patients, other patients experience disease flare in the absence…