ACR Meeting Abstracts
Abstract Number: 1825 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
Indu Poornima1, Kelly J. Shields2, Susan Manzi3, Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman4, Carrie Richardson5, Lewis Kuller6, George Kondos7, James Carr5, Craig Langman5, Heather Price5, Daniel Edmundowicz8 and Rachel Mackey9, 1Division of Cardiology, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, 2Rheumatology, Allegheny Singer Research Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, 3Rheumatology, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, 4Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, 5Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 6Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 7University of Illinois in Chicago, Chicago, IL, 8Cardiology, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 9Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Background/Purpose: In the general population, we and others have reported that higher osteoprotegerin (OPG), a protein involved in bone remodeling, is associated with higher levels…