Abstracts tagged "Cohort Study"

Abstract Number: 0475 • ACR Convergence 2020
To Attend or Note to Attend; The Medical Student’s Dilemma
Benjamin Widener¹, Amy Cannella¹ and Sarah McBrien¹, ¹University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
Background/Purpose: We present a comparison of student’s outcomes with remote video-based learning versus lecture attendance in pre-clinical medical students during a musculoskeletal curriculum, thus allowing…
Abstract Number: 1001 • ACR Convergence 2020
Risk of Malignant Melanoma and Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Initiating Methotrexate versus Hydroxychloroquine
Hemin Lee¹, Sarah Chen², Nileesa Gautam², Seanna Vine¹, Mengdong He², Rishi Desai², Michael Weinblatt¹, Robert Glynn² and Seoyoung Kim², ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston
Background/Purpose: Previous randomized clinical trials and observational studies have signaled an increased risk of skin cancer in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients treated with immunosuppressants such…
Abstract Number: 1325 • ACR Convergence 2020
Monoclonal Gammopathy in Psoriatic Arthritis
Vanessa Ocampo¹ and Dafna Gladman², ¹University of Toronto, University Health Network, Psoriatic Arthritis Research Program, Toronto, Canada, ²Krembil Research Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) is an asymptomatic premalignant clonal plasma disorder, defined by the presence of a serum monoclonal protein (M-protein) at…
Abstract Number: 1841 • ACR Convergence 2020
Outcomes After Hydroxychloroquine Reduction or Discontinuation in a Multinational Inception Cohort of Systemic Lupus
Celline Almeida-Brasil¹, John Hanly², Murray Urowitz³, Ann Clarke⁴, Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman⁵, Caroline Gordon⁶, Michelle Petri⁷, Ellen M Ginzler⁸, Daniel J Wallace⁹, Sang-Cheol Bae¹⁰, Juanita Romero-Diaz¹¹, Mary Ann Dooley¹², Christine A. Peschken¹³, David Isenberg¹⁴, Anisur Rahman¹⁴, Susan Manzi¹⁵, Søren Jacobsen¹⁶, S. Sam Lim¹⁷, Ronald Van Vollenhoven¹⁸, Ola Nived¹⁹, Andreas Jönsen¹⁹, Diane Kamen²⁰, Cynthia Aranow²¹, Guillermo Ruiz-Irastorza²², Jorge Sanchez-Guerrero²³, Dafna Gladman²⁴, Paul Fortin²⁵, Graciela Alarcón²⁶, Joan Merrill²⁷, Kenneth Kalunian²⁸, Manuel Ramos-Casals²⁹, Kristjan Steinsson³⁰, Asad Zoma³¹, Anca Askanase³², Munther Khamashta³³, Ian Bruce³⁴, Murat Inanc³⁵ and Sasha Bernatsky³⁶, ¹McGill University, Montreal, Canada, ²QEII Health Sciences Centre, Halifax, Canada, ³University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ⁶University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, ⁷Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, ⁸SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, ⁹Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Beverly Hills, CA, ¹⁰Department of Rheumatology, Hanyang University Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ¹¹Salvador Zubirán National Institute of Health Sciences and Nutrition, Mexico City, Mexico, ¹²UNC Health, Chapel Hil, ¹³University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, ¹⁴University College London, London, United Kingdom, ¹⁵Temple University, Philadelphia, ¹⁶University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, ¹⁷Emory University, Atlanta, GA, ¹⁸University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ¹⁹Lund University, Lund, Sweden, ²⁰Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ²¹Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, ²²Hospital Universitario Cruces, Bizkaia, Spain, ²³University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, ²⁴Krembil Research Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²⁵CHU de Quebec - Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada, ²⁶Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, The University of Alabama at Birmingham; Department of Medicine, School of Medicine; Universidad Peruana Cayetano, Heredia, Alabama, ²⁷New York University, New York, ²⁸University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, ²⁹University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ³⁰Reykjavik University, Reykjavik, Iceland, ³¹University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, ³²Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, NY, ³³King's College London, London, United Kingdom, ³⁴The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ³⁵Department of Rheumatology, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey, ³⁶The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is a cornerstone treatment for several autoimmune diseases including Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE). Recently, concerns arose regarding HCQ shortages for SLE patients,…
Abstract Number: 0503 • ACR Convergence 2020
Targeted Metabolomic Profiling and Prediction of Cardiovascular Events: A Prospective Study of Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis and Psoriasis
Keith Colaco¹, Ker-Ai Lee², Shadi Akhtari³, Raz Winer⁴, Paul Welsh⁵, Naveed Sattar⁵, Iain McInnes⁶, Vinod Chandran⁷, Paula Harvey⁸, Richard Cook², Dafna Gladman⁷, Vincent Piguet⁸ and Lihi Eder⁹, ¹Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto; Women's College Research Institute, Women's College Hospital; and Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, ³Women's College Hospital, University of Toronto, North York, ON, Canada, ⁴Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel, ⁵University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, ⁶Institute of Infection, Immunity, and Inflammation, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, ⁷Krembil Research Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁸Women's College Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁹Women’s College Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Psoriatic arthritis and psoriasis, collectively termed psoriatic disease (PsD), are associated with increased cardiovascular (CV) risk. Metabolites comprise biomarkers that may add predictive value…
Abstract Number: 1003 • ACR Convergence 2020
Long-term Weight Changes and Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis Among Women in a Prospective Cohort: A Marginal Structural Model Approach
Nathalie Marchand¹, Jeffrey Sparks², Kazuki Yoshida³, Susan Malspeis⁴, Xuehong Zhang⁵, Karen Costenbader⁶, Elizabeth Karlson¹ and Bing Lu⁷, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation, and Immunity; Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ³Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁴Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, ⁵Brigham and Women's Hospital and Channing Division of Network Medicine, Boston, MA, ⁶Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁷Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Newton, MA
Background/Purpose: The risk of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has been shown to be elevated among overweight and obese women in several studies, but whether weight gain…
Abstract Number: 1326 • ACR Convergence 2020
Malignancy Risk Among Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis in the United States: A Population-Based National Study
Sali Merjanah¹, Mohamad Bittar² and Marina Magrey³, ¹Case Western Reserve University, MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, ²The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, ³Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH
Background/Purpose: Increased cancer risk has been reported with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), but the correlation is poorly studied in Ankylosing spondylitis…
Abstract Number: 1851 • ACR Convergence 2020
Different Disease Activity Trajectories in Early Axial Spondyloarthritis Lead to Significantly Different Long-term Outcomes : A Cluster-based Analysis of the DESIR Cohort
Benattar Leslie¹, Anna Molto², Laure Gossec³ and Resche Rigon Matthieu⁴, ¹Cochin Hospital, Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France, ²Rheumatology Department, Cochin Hospital, APHP, Paris, France, Paris, France, ³Sorbonne University, INSERM; Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, Ile-de-France, France, ⁴INSERM (UFR 1153), Saint Louis Hospital, Paris, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: AxSpA is a heterogeneous disease, leading to different treatment and follow-up modalities depending on the presentation, along with other elements (socio-economic, gender, etc..). In a…
Abstract Number: 0564 • ACR Convergence 2020
Incidence and Progression of Foot Osteoarthritis
Rami Eltaraboulsi¹, Amanda Nelson², Carolina Alvarez³, Jordan Renner⁴, Catherine Bowen⁵, Lucy Gates⁵ and Yvonne Golightly⁶, ¹University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Apex, NC, ²University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Thurston Arthritis Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, ³University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Thurston Arthritis Research Center, Miami, FL, ⁴University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁵University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, ⁶University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Dept of Epidemiology, Chapel Hill, NC
Background/Purpose: Foot osteoarthritis (OA) is a common cause of disability in older adults yet remains an understudied area. The purpose of this study was to…
Abstract Number: 1006 • ACR Convergence 2020
Post-menopausal Rheumatoid Arthritis Is Inversely Associated with Lifetime High Level of Estrogen Exposure in the French E3N Cohort
Carine Salliot¹, Yann Nguyen², Amandine Gelot³, Xavier Mariette⁴, Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault³ and Raphaèle Seror⁵, ¹CHR orleans, Orleans, France, ²1Department of Internal Medicine, Hôpital Beaujon, APHP Nord, Université de Paris, Clichy, Clichy, France, ³Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France, ⁴Paris-Sud University, Rueil-Malmaison, France, ⁵Rheumatology Department, Bicetre Hospital, APHP, France, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: The involvement of female hormones in the pathogenesis of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is supported by numerous observations: a female predominance, an increased incidence in…
Abstract Number: 1328 • ACR Convergence 2020
Cardiac Biomarkers Are Associated with the Development of Cardiovascular Events in Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis and Psoriasis
Keith Colaco¹, Ker-Ai Lee², Shadi Akhtari³, Raz Winer⁴, Paul Welsh⁵, Naveed Sattar⁵, Iain McInnes⁶, Vinod Chandran⁷, Paula Harvey⁸, Richard Cook², Dafna Gladman⁷, Vincent Piguet⁸ and Lihi Eder⁹, ¹Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto; Women's College Research Institute, Women's College Hospital; and Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, ³Women's College Hospital, University of Toronto, North York, ON, Canada, ⁴Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel, ⁵University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, ⁶Institute of Infection, Immunity, and Inflammation, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, ⁷Krembil Research Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁸Women's College Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁹Women’s College Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: N-terminal pro-brain-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) and troponin I (TnI) are established cardiac biomarkers that predict cardiovascular events (CVEs) and mortality in apparently healthy individuals…
Abstract Number: 1872 • ACR Convergence 2020
Relative Associations of Sociodemographic, Clinical and HLA-B Alleles with Enthesitis and Peripheral Arthritis in Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis
Benjamin Naovarat¹, Lianne Gensler², Michael Ward³, Mark Hwang⁴, Matthew Brown⁵, Amirali Tahanan⁶, Mohammad Rahbar⁶, Mariko Ishimori⁷, Michael Weisman⁸ and John Reveille⁹, ¹The University of Texas McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX, ²University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ³National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ⁴McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, ⁵Guy's and St Thomas, NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, King's College London, London, United Kingdom, London, United Kingdom, ⁶McGovern Medical School at UTHealth, Houston, ⁷Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁸Cedars Sinai Medical Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ⁹Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas, Houston, TX
Background/Purpose: Previous studies from Latin America have shown an association with peripheral arthritis in patients with spondyloarthritis with HLA-B*15 (as opposed to HLA-B27). We aimed…

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