Abstracts tagged "cardiovascular disease and juvenile SLE"

Abstract Number: 470 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Pro-Inflammatory High Density Lipoprotein Function Is Associated with Accelerated Carotid Intimal Medial Thickness Progression in Childhood-Onset SLE
Jennifer C. Cooper¹, Stacy P. Ardoin², Emily von Scheven³, Laura E. Schanberg⁴, Brian Skaggs⁵ and Maureen A. McMahon⁶, ¹Pediatrics, Divison of Rheumatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²Division of Rheumatology, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH, ³Pediatric Rheumatology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁴Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, ⁵Rheumatology, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ⁶University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Background/Purpose: Patients with childhood-onset(cSLE) are at significantly increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease when they reach early adulthood. The Atherosclerosis Prevention Pediatric Lupus Erythematous…