Abstracts tagged "Clinical Response and ethics"

Abstract Number: 2413 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
Similar Response Rates to Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor and Non- Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor Biologic Therapies in Ethnic Minority Patients at 6 Months
Gail S. Kerr¹, Yusuf Yazici², Christopher Swearingen³, Luis R. Espinoza⁴, Edward L. Treadwell⁵, Yvonne Sherrer⁶, Angelia Mosley-WIlliams⁷, Ignacio Garcia-Valladares⁸, Rodolfo Perez Alamino⁹, Sharon Dowell¹⁰, Mercedes Quinones¹¹, Akgun Ince¹², Theresa Lawrence Ford¹³, Chunqiao Luo¹⁴, Adrian Godoy¹⁰ and John Amatruda¹⁵, ¹Rheumatology, Washington DC VAMC, Georgetown and Howard University, Washington, DC, ²Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, ³Pediatrics and Biostatistics, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR, ⁴Medicine-Section of Rheum, LSU Medical Center, New Orleans, LA, ⁵Dept Medicine Div of Rheum, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, ⁶Rheum/Immunology, Centre Rheum Immunol Arthritis, Fort Lauderdale, FL, ⁷Rheumatology, Detroit VAMC, Detroit, MI, ⁸Immunology and Rheumatology, Hospital General de Occidente, Zapopan, Jal., Mexico, ⁹internal Medicine, LSUHSC, New Orleans, LA, ¹⁰Division of Rheumatology, Howard University, Washington, DC, ¹¹Division of Rheumatology, Howard University Hospital, Washington, DC, ¹²Arthitis Consultants Inc, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO, ¹³North Georgia Rheumatology Group, PC, Lawrenceville, GA, ¹⁴University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, ¹⁵Rheumatology, Howard University, Washington, DC
Similar Response Rates to Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor and Non- Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor Biologic Therapies in Ethnic Minority Patients Background/Purpose: Biologic therapies have expanded the treatment…