Abstracts tagged "Demographics"

Abstract Number: 1217 • ACR Convergence 2022
The Problem of Pain in Rheumatology: Clinical Profiles Associated with Concomitant Diagnoses with Chronic Overlapping Pain Conditions
Titilola Falasinnu¹, Yashaar Chaichian² and Julia Simard³, ¹Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, ²Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ³Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA
Background/Purpose: The chronification of pain is heterogeneous in rheumatology. Chronic overlapping pain conditions (COPCs) such as fibromyalgia, endometriosis, migraine, and back pain may co-occur with…
Abstract Number: 0334 • ACR Convergence 2021
Association Between Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Myasthenia Gravis: A Population-Based National Study
Sali Merjanah¹, Ann Igoe², David Kaelber³ and Robert Hal Scofield⁴, ¹Boston University, Boston, MA, ²OhioHealth Hospital, Mansfield, OH, ³The MetroHealth System Campus of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, ⁴Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and myasthenia gravis (MG) are two autoimmune disorders that have a young female preponderance, relapsing-remitting course, and positive antinuclear antibodies.…
Abstract Number: 0610 • ACR Convergence 2021
Evaluating Patient No Show Rates to Rheumatology Appointments Across a Regional Healthcare System
Osman Bhatty¹, Rebecca Schorr², Tarun Sharma¹ and Mary Chester Wasko¹, ¹Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, ²Highmark Health, Pittsburgh, PA
Background/Purpose: No-show visits in various clinical settings are costly to providers and to health care systems, potentially representing between 3-14% of a clinic’s yearly income.…
Abstract Number: 0615 • ACR Convergence 2021
Socioeconomic Characteristics Associated with Electronic Health Care Utilization in an Urban Rheumatology Clinic During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Jenna Thomason¹, Bryanna Mantilla², Alison Bays¹, Irvin Huang¹ and Grant hughes¹, ¹University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ²George Washington University, Arlington, VA
Background/Purpose: In the US, the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted increased utilization of telemedicine (TM), electronic patient portals (EPPs), and other electronic modalities of health care…
Abstract Number: 1055 • ACR Convergence 2021
How to Optimize E-Recruitment Strategies: Lessons Learned from over 3000 Participants in an International Arab Online Study
Ihsane Hmamouchi¹, Lina El Kibbi², Nizar Abdulateef³, Basel Masri⁴, Hussein Halabi⁵, Mervat Eissa⁶, Manal El Rakawi⁷, Fatemah Abutiban⁸, Wafa Hamdi⁹, Mona Metawee², Antonella Abi Najm¹⁰, Asal Adnan³, Renaud Felten¹¹, Laurent Arnaud¹¹ and Nelly Ziade¹², ¹Rheumatology Unit, Temara Hospital, Laboratory of Biostatistics, Clinical Research and Epidemiology (LBRCE), Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco, ²Specialized Medical Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, ³Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, ⁴Jordan Hospital, Amman, Jordan, ⁵King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, ⁶Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, Cairo, Egypt, ⁷Rheumatology Department, Douera Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Saad Dahlab, Blida, Algeria, ⁸Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, Jaber Alahmed Alsabah Hospital, Kuwait City, Kuwait, ⁹Rheumatology Department, Kassab Institute of Orthopedics, UR17SP04, Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, Tunis El Manar University, Tunis, Tunisia, ¹⁰Faculty of Medicine, Saint-Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon, ¹¹Department of Rheumatology, French National Reference Center for Autoimmune Diseases (CRMR RESO), Strasbourg, France, ¹²Rheumatology Department, Saint-Joseph Medical University and Hotel-Dieu de France Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon
Background/Purpose: The use of online surveys as a recruitment tool for clinical research has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic and will likely continue to expand.…
Abstract Number: 0831 • ACR Convergence 2020
Sociodemographic, Disease, and Medication Profile of RA Patients Under 65 Years Compared with 65 Years or Older at Registry Enrollment: Real World Results from a Rheumatoid Arthritis Cohort
Mohammad Movahedi¹, Angela Cesta², Xiuying Li³ and Claire Bombardier⁴, ¹Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, Toronto, Canada, ⁴Institute for Work and Health, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Age is an important factor that can affect disease course, physical function and treat to target strategy for patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We…
Abstract Number: 1140 • ACR Convergence 2020
How Did SARS-CoV2/COVID-19 Pandemic Affected Patients with Rheumatic Diseases in Latin America? A Regional Survey from PANLAR
Daniel Fernández-Ávila¹, Julián Barahona-Correa¹, Diana Romero-Alvernia¹, Sergio Kowalski², Ana María Sapag Durán³, Antonio Cachafeiro Vilar⁴, Belia Lucía Meléndez Muñoz⁵, Carlos Santiago Pastelín⁶, Claudia Ramírez⁷, Daniel Palleiro Rivero⁸, Diego Alejandro Jaimes⁹, Dina María Arrieta¹⁰, Guillermo Pons-Estel¹¹, Jossiell Then Báez¹², Manuel Ugarte-Gil¹³, Mario Cardiel¹⁴, Nelly Colman¹⁵, Nilmo Chávez Pérez¹⁶, Paula Burgos¹⁷, Rubén Montufar¹⁸, Sayonara Sandino¹⁹, Yurilis Fuentes-Silva²⁰ and Enrique Soriano²¹, ¹Pontificia Universidad Javeriana - Hospital Universitario San Ignacio, Bogota, Colombia, ²Unidad de Investigación PANLAR. Universidade Federal do Paraná, Paraná, Brazil, ³Hospital Universitario Japonés, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, ⁴Pacífica Salud - Hospital Punta Pacífica,, Ciudad de Panamá, Panama, ⁵Hospital de la Policía Nacional N1 Quito, Quito, Ecuador, ⁶Instituto Hondureño de la Seguridad Social, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, ⁷Organización Keralty, Bogota, ⁸Instituto Nacional de Reumatología del Uruguay - Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay, ⁹Clínicos IPS- Universidad de la Sabana, Bogotá D.C., Colombia, ¹⁰Hospital México, San José de Costa Rica, Costa Rica, ¹¹Centro Regional de Enfermedades Autoinmunes y Reumáticas (GO-CREAR), Rosario, Argentina, ¹²Hospital Metropolitano de Santiago (HOMS), Santiago, Dominican Republic, ¹³Servicio de Reumatología. Hospital Nacional Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen and Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru, ¹⁴Centro de Investigación Clínica de Morelia, Morelia, Mexico, ¹⁵Hospital de Clínicas - Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Asunción, Paraguay, ¹⁶Instituto Guatemalteco de Seguridad Social, Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala, ¹⁷Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile, ¹⁸Consultorio de Especialidades del Instituto Salvadoreño del Seguro Social, San Salvador, El Salvador, ¹⁹Policlínica Nicaragüense, Managua, Nicaragua, ²⁰Centro Clínico Universitario de Oriente - Universidad de Oriente, Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela, ²¹Department of Public Health, Instituto Universitario, Escuela de Medicina Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Rheumatology Unit, Internal Medicine Services, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Capital Federal, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Background/Purpose: Social isolation during SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic has undermined follow-up of patients with rheumatic diseases. These patients face a critical dilemma between the risk of exposure…
Abstract Number: 1164 • ACR Convergence 2020
Frequency of Genetic Diagnosis in an Autoinflammatory Disease Natural History Protocol Cohort of Patients
Katelin R. Honer¹, Kim Johnson¹, Gema Souto Adeva¹, Gina Montealegre Sanchez², Jenna Wade³, Jacob Mitchell¹, Katherine Townsend³, Adriana de Jesus⁴ and Raphaela Goldbach-Mansky⁵, ¹Translational Autoinflammatory Disease Section (TADS)/NIAID/NIH, Bethesda, MD, ²Translational Autoinflammatory Disease Section (TADS)/NIAID/NIH, Rockville, MD, ³Translational Autoinflammatory Disease Section (TADS)/NIAID/NIH, Bethesda, ⁴Translational Autoinflammatory Disease Section (TADS)/NIAID/NIH, Silver Spring, MD, ⁵Translational Autoinflammatory Disease Section (TADS)/NIAID/NIH, Potomac, MD
Background/Purpose: Monogenic autoinflammatory diseases (AID) are caused by innate immune dysregulation resulting in systemic inflammation and variable organ-specific clinical manifestations. The Translational Autoinflammatory Disease Section…
Abstract Number: 1388 • ACR Convergence 2020
A Systematic Assessment of Demographics, Clinical and Serological Features Associated with Colonic Hypomotility in Systemic Sclerosis
Jenice Cheah¹, Jamie Perin², Elizabeth Volkmann³, Laura Hummers⁴, Fredrick Wigley⁵ and Zsuzsanna McMahan⁶, ¹JHUSOM, Baltimore, ²JHUSPH, Baltimore, ³University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Johns Hopkins Univerisity, Ellicott City, MD, ⁵Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁶Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Background/Purpose: Colonic dysmotility affects up to 50% of patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc). While some patients have mild colonic disease, others experience severe complications, such…
Abstract Number: 0004 • ACR Convergence 2020
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Patients with Chronic Rheumatic Diseases: A Study in 15 Arab Countries
Nelly Ziade¹, Lina El Kibbi², Ihsane Hmamouchi³, Nizar Abdulateef⁴, Hussein Halabi⁵, Wafa Hamdi⁶, Fatemah Abutiban⁷, Manal el Rakawi⁸, Mervat Eissa⁹ and Basel Masri¹⁰, ¹Saint-Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon, Beirut, Lebanon, ²Specialized Medical Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, ³Temara Hospital, Laboratory of Biostatistics, Clinical Research and Epidemiology (LBRCE), Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco, Rabat, Morocco, ⁴Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq, ⁵King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, ⁶Department of Rheumatology, Kassab Institute of orthopedics, UR17SP04, Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, Tunis El Manar University, Tunisia, Tunis, Tunisia, ⁷Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, Jaber Alahmed Alsabah hospital, State of Kuwait, Jahra, Kuwait, ⁸Departement of Rheumatology, Douera Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Saad Dahlab, Blida, Algeria, Blida, Algeria, ⁹Rheumatology Department, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, Cairo, Egypt, ¹⁰Jordan Hospital, Amman, Jordan, Amman, Jordan
Background/Purpose: To evaluate the impact of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic (COVID-19) on the access to rheumatology care for patients with chronic rheumatic diseases in…
Abstract Number: 1419 • ACR Convergence 2020
Clinical Disease Might Be Divided into Two Phenotypes in ANCA Associated Vasculitis; Results of a Cluster Analysis
Elif Ediboglu¹, Onay Gercik², Emre Bilgin³, Dilek Solmaz⁴, Irfan Ocal⁵, Arzu Saglam⁶, Zeki Soypacacı², Haluk Cinaklı⁵, Sedat Kiraz³, Ömer Karadağ⁷ and Servet Akar², ¹Izmir Katip Celebi University, Izmir, Izmir, Turkey, ²Izmir Katip Celebi University, Izmir, Turkey, ³Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey, ⁴Izmir Katip Celebi University, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Izmir, TURKEY, Izmir, Turkey, ⁵Izmir Katip Celebi University, Izmir, ⁶Hacettepe University, Ankara, ⁷Hacettepe University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Ankara,, Ankara, Turkey
Background/Purpose: One of the controversial matters in ANCA associated vasculitis is the definition of disease based on clinical characteristics since there is a remarkable overlap…
Abstract Number: 0018 • ACR Convergence 2020
PROMIS-29 and Health Related Quality of Life in Rheumatology Outpatients During the COVID-19 Pandemic in New York City
Gregory Vitone¹, Marianna Frey², Candace Feldman³, Lindsay Lally², Anne Bass⁴, Jane Salmon², Mary Crow², Michael Lockshin⁵, Vivian Bykerk², Medha Barbhaiya⁵ and Lisa Mandl², ¹Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, ²Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ³Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁴Hospital for Special Surgery/Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ⁵Hospital for Special Surgery, Barbara Volcker Center for Women and Rheumatic Diseases, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Little is known about the general health and wellbeing of patients with systemic rheumatic diseases (SRD) during the COVID pandemic. We sought to compare…
Abstract Number: 1569 • ACR Convergence 2020
Immune Related Adverse Events Related to Check Point Inhibitors Among Outpatients in an Academic Center
Bushra Akram¹, Aleena Itani¹, Mohammad Razaq², Samera Vaseer¹, Sara Vesely¹ and Pawan Acharya¹, ¹University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, ²University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK
Background/Purpose: Immune check point inhibitors (ICIs) allow the body to recognize tumor cells as non-self, resulting in immune-cell mediated tumor cell destruction. These therapies have the…
Abstract Number: 0043 • ACR Convergence 2020
Geographical Disparity in Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Burden Independent of Race/Ethnicity
Gail Kerr¹, Christopher Swearingen², Manuela Pedra-Nobre³, Dianne Wollaston⁴, Sawsan Najmey⁵, Cynthia Lawrence-Elliott⁶, Theresa Lawrence Ford⁶, Sharon Dowell⁷, Heather North⁸, Robin Dore⁹, Soha Dolatabadi¹⁰, Thaila Ramanujam¹¹, Anne Winkler¹², Stacy Kennedy¹³, Ilona Jileaeva¹⁴, Amina Richardson¹⁵, Jeffrey Kaine¹⁶ and Grace Wright¹⁷, ¹Washington DC VA Medical Center, Washington, DC, ²New York University, New York, NY, ³North Jersey Rheumatology Center, Westfield, NJ, ⁴Memorial Advanced Rheumatology, Inc, HOUSTON, TX, ⁵Midstate Rheumatology Center, Freehold, NJ, ⁶North Georgia Rheumatology Group, Lawrenceville, GA, ⁷Howard University, Washington, DC, ⁸Pardee UNC Rheumatology, Hendersonville, NC, ⁹Private practice, Tustin, CA, ¹⁰Soha Dolatabadi, MD, Los Angeles, CA, ¹¹Thaila Ramanujanm. M.D Inc, Santa Cruz, CA, ¹²Cox Medical Center, Springfield, MO, ¹³Rowan Diagnostic Clinic, Concord, NC, ¹⁴Howard University Hospital, Washington, DC, ¹⁵Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC, ¹⁶Sarasota Arthritis Center, Sarasota, FL, ¹⁷Association of Women in Rheumatology, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: In the US, health care systems vary, as does cost sharing and access to various RA therapies. However, the burden of RA – a…
Abstract Number: 1604 • ACR Convergence 2020
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Rheumatology Practice: A Study in 15 Arab Countries
Nelly Ziade¹, Ihsane Hmamouchi², Lina El Kibbi³, Nizar Abdulateef⁴, Hussein Halabi⁵, Fatemah Abutiban⁶, Wafa Hamdi⁷, Manal el Rakawi⁸, Mervat Eissa⁹ and Basel Masri¹⁰, ¹Saint-Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon, Beirut, Lebanon, ²Temara Hospital, Laboratory of Biostatistics, Clinical Research and Epidemiology (LBRCE), Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco, Rabat, Morocco, ³Specialized Medical Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, ⁴Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq, ⁵King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, ⁶Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, Jaber Alahmed Alsabah hospital, State of Kuwait, Jahra, Kuwait, ⁷Department of Rheumatology, Kassab Institute of orthopedics, UR17SP04, Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, Tunis El Manar University, Tunisia, Tunis, Tunisia, ⁸Departement of Rheumatology, Douera Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Saad Dahlab, Blida, Algeria, Blida, Algeria, ⁹Rheumatology Department, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, Cairo, Egypt, ¹⁰Jordan Hospital, Amman, Jordan, Amman, Jordan
Background/Purpose: To date, information about the impact of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic on rheumatology practice and on rheumatologists is limited.The primary objective of the…

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