Abstracts tagged "body mass and obesity"

Abstract Number: 1364 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019
Affect of Obesity on Multi-Biomarker Disease Activity (MBDA) Measurements in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Patients
Yael Ross¹, Madhavi Siddhanthi ², Lewis VanBrackle ³, David Carpenter ⁴, Aishwarya Rallabhandy ⁵ and Mohammad Kamran ², ¹WellStar Kennestone regional medical center, Atlanta, GA, ²WellStar Medical Group, Marietta, GA, ³Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, ⁴WellStar Kennestone regional medical center, Marietta, ⁵High School, Marietta
Background/Purpose: The goal for treatment of RA is to obtain low disease activity for better outcomes. In order to achieve low disease activity, it is…
Abstract Number: 1171 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2016
Obesity and the Risk of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in the Nurses’ Health Studies
Sara K. Tedeschi¹, Medha Barbhaiya¹, Bing Lu¹, Susan Malspeis², Jeffrey A. Sparks², Elizabeth W. Karlson¹, Walter C. Willett³ and Karen H. Costenbader¹, ¹Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ³Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Obesity has become alarmingly common over the past four decades in the U.S., with a notable rise in obesity prevalence starting in the late…