Abstracts tagged "Cognitive dysfunction and osteoarthritis"

Abstract Number: 1288 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
Older Adults with Osteoarthritis Do Not Have an Increased Risk of Cognitive Impairment
Bansari Gujar¹, Ann Gruber-Baldini², Mona Baumgarten³, William Hawkes², Michael C. Nevitt⁴, Kristine Yaffe⁵, Tamara Harris⁶ and Marc C. Hochberg⁷, ¹Division of Rheumatology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ³University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁴Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UCSF (University of California, San Francisco), San Francisco, CA, ⁵UCSF (University of California, San Francisco), San Francisco, CA, ⁶National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ⁷Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Background/Purpose: A prior study showed an association between osteoarthritis (OA) and increased mortality from dementia. Recent preclinical studies suggest a possible association between OA and…