Abstracts tagged "comorbidity and epidemiologic methods"

Abstract Number: 840 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019
Trajectory of Multimorbidity in Rheumatoid Arthritis in a U.S. Commercial Insurance Claims Database from 2006-2015
Bryant England¹, Punyasha Roul ², Fang Yu ², Harlan Sayles ², Kaleb Michaud ², Fenglong Xie ³, Jeffrey Curtis ⁴ and Ted Mikuls ⁵, ¹VA Nebraska-Western IA Health Care System & University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, ²University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ³University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, ⁴University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁵VA Nebraska-Western IA Health Care System & University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
Background/Purpose: Multimorbidity, the presence of multiple chronic conditions, predisposes individuals to disability and premature mortality. RA is well known to be associated with select chronic…