Abstracts tagged "cardiovascular disease and risk"

Abstract Number: 1072 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2016
Antiphospholipid Syndrome Alliance for Clinical Trials & International Networking Registry Analysis: Cardiovascular Risk Factors Among Different Groups of Antiphospholipid Antibody-Positive Patients
Ozan Unlu¹, Doruk Erkan², Maria Tektonidou³ and On Behalf of APS ACTION .⁴, ¹Barbara Volcker Center for Women and Rheumatic Diseases, Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ²Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery- Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ³First Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, National University of Athens, Athens, Greece, ⁴., New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Traditional cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors increase the risk of thrombotic clinical manifestations in antiphospholipid antibody (aPL)-positive patients. The prevalence of CVD risk factors…
Abstract Number: 1524 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
Evaluation of Changes in Cardiovascular Risk Factors Among Patients with RA Prescribed Biologic Dmards
E Alemao¹, T Simon², KK Gandhi¹, H Kawabata² and Jeffrey R. Curtis³, ¹Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ, ²Bristol-Myers Squibb, Hopewell, NJ, ³University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: Studies have reported that TNF-inhibitors (TNF-Is) are associated with a reduced risk of cardiovascular (CV) events,1 but data on their effects on traditional CV…