ACR Meeting Abstracts
Abstract Number: 1811 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
April Jorge1, Apinya Lertratanakul2, Julia (Jungwha) Lee3, William Pearce1, David McPherson4, Trina Thompson5, Emma Barinas-Mitchell6 and Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman1, 1Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, 2Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 3Department of Preventive Medicine, Biostatistics Collaboration Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, 4University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, 5Saint Francis University, Ebensburg, PA, 6University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Background/Purpose: Women with SLE have an increased incidence of premature cardiovascular disease (CVD). Depression is also common among SLE patients. A relationship between depression and…