Abstracts tagged "Co-morbidities and epidemiologic methods"

Abstract Number: 185 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019
Accrual of Multimorbidity After Incident Rheumatoid Arthritis and Matched Comparators Using a Large Prospective Cohort with 30 Years of Follow-up
Kazuki Yoshida¹, Tzu-Chieh Lin ², Melissa Y Wei ³, Susan Malspeis ¹, Su H. Chu ⁴, Carlos Camargo ⁵, Benjamin A. Raby ¹, Hyon K. Choi ⁵, Sara K. Tedeschi ⁶, Medha Barbhaiya ⁷, Bing Lu ¹, Karen Costenbader ¹, Elizabeth Karlson ¹ and Jeffrey Sparks ¹, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Amgen, Thousand Oaks, CA, ³University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁴Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁵Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁶Brigham and Women's Hospital, Div. of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Boston, MA, ⁷Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients often suffer from multimorbidity, the coexistence of multiple chronic morbidities. However, little is known about how multimorbidity accrues over time…