Abstract Number: 0744 • ACR Convergence 2020
Circulating Fibroblast Growth Factor-21 Levels in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Associations with Disease Characteristics, Body Composition, and Physical Functioning
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) can lead to changes in body composition, including muscle loss and excess adiposity, which are in turn associated with physical disability.…Abstract Number: 1284 • ACR Convergence 2020
Application of a Novel Method for Determination of Muscle Mass Relative to Fat Mass in Women with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Association with Disability
Background/Purpose: Patients with SLE are at risk for both skeletal muscle loss and increased adiposity, which may predispose to worse health-related quality of life. Decreased…Abstract Number: 1285 • ACR Convergence 2020
Association of Frailty with Disability Is Not Attenuated by Lean Body Mass in Women with SLE
Background/Purpose: Frailty has been associated with disability and mortality in SLE. Whether this association is confounded by sarcopenia, a degenerative loss of muscle mass and…Abstract Number: 1376 • ACR Convergence 2020
Impact of Body Composition Measures on the Response to Biological Disease-modifying Anti-rheumatic Drugs in Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis
Background/Purpose: Data on the impact of body weight and body mass index (BMI) on the response to biological disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (bDMARDs) in axial spondyloarthritis…Abstract Number: 1755 • ACR Convergence 2020
Body Mass Index Trajectory and Variability in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Background/Purpose: Past studies have examined associations between BMI and disease activity [1, 2, 3], but few studies have characterized BMI trajectory over the disease course…Abstract Number: 2032 • ACR Convergence 2020
Treatment Response to Biological Disease-modifying Anti-rheumatic Drugs Is Associated with Favorable Changes of the Body Composition in Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis
Background/Purpose: There is few data available regarding differences in body composition and its possible changes in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) treated with biological disease-modifying…Abstract Number: 1867 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Body Composition in Myositis Patients Is Negatively Changed Compared to Healthy Controls and the Changes Are Associated with Disease Activity and Duration, Skeletal Muscle Involvement and Physical Activity and Nutritional Status
Background/Purpose: Skeletal muscle, pulmonary and articular involvement in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) limit the mobility/self-sufficiency of patients, and can have a negative impact on body…Abstract Number: 2463 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Body Composition and Fat Distribution in Patients with Psoriasis or Psoriatic Arthritis
Background/Purpose: Obesity is a leading comorbidity in both psoriasis (Pso) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and is associated with common metabolic complications and increased cardiovascular (CV)…Abstract Number: 2614 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Association of Body Composition in Scleroderma Patients with Disease Activity, Serum Levels of Inflammatory Cytokines and Parameters of Nutrition and Lipid Metabolism
Background/Purpose: Fibrosis of the skin and visceral organs, especially digestive tract, and musculoskeletal involvement in systemic sclerosis (SSc) can have a negative impact on body…
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