Abstracts tagged "Clinical Response and ethnic studies"

Abstract Number: 2378 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014

Ethnic Minorities with Rheumatoid Arthritis Achieve a Meaningful Clinical Response at 12 Months Despite Infrequent Use of Biologic Therapies

Gail S. Kerr¹, Yusuf Yazici², Christopher Swearingen³, Sharon Dowell⁴, Luis R. Espinoza⁵, Edward Treadwell⁶, Theresa Lawrence-Ford⁷, Yvonne Sherrer⁸, Angelia Mosley-WIlliams⁹, Rodolfo Perez Alamino¹⁰, Ignacio Garcia-Valladares¹¹, Akgun Ince¹², Mercedes Quinones¹³, Chunqiao Luo³, Adrian Godoy⁴ and John Amatruda¹⁴, 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, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Howard University, Washington, DC, ⁵Medicine-Section of Rheum, LSU Medical Center, New Orleans, LA, ⁶Dept Medicine Div of Rheum, E Carolina Univ Sch of Med, Greenville, NC, ⁷North Georgia Rheumatology Group, PC, Lawrenceville, GA, ⁸Rheum/Immunology, Centre Rheum Immunol Arthritis, Fort Lauderdale, FL, ⁹Rheumatology, Detroit VAMC, Detroit, MI, ¹⁰internal Medicine, LSUHSC, New Orleans, LA, ¹¹Immunology and Rheumatology, Hospital General de Occidente, Zapopan, Jal., Mexico, ¹²Arthitis Consultants Inc, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO, ¹³Division of Rheumatology, Howard University Hospital, Washington, DC, ¹⁴Rheumatology, Howard University, Washington, DC