Abstracts tagged "cardiovascular disease and CT scan"

Abstract Number: 924 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Highly-sensitive Cardiac Troponin-I and Beta-2-Glycoprotein-I IgA Antibodies Inform the Utility of Screening and Follow-up Non-invasive Coronary Atherosclerosis Evaluation and Optimize Cardiovascular Risk Assessment in Rheumatoid Arthritis
George Karpouzas¹, Sarah Ormseth ¹, Elizabeth Hernandez ² and Matthew Budoff ¹, ¹Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and Los Angeles Biomedical Institute, Torrance, CA, ²Harbor-UCLA Medical center and Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, Torrance
Background/Purpose: We recently reported that highly-sensitive cardiac troponin-I (hs-cTnI) associates with occult coronary atherosclerosis burden and cardiovascular event (CVE) risk in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We…