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Abstracts tagged "disability and longitudinal studies"

  • Abstract Number: 2857 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014

    Restricting Back Pain Is Strongly Associated with Disability in Community-Living Older Persons over the Course of 13 Years

    Una Makris1,2, Liana Fraenkel3, Ling Han4, Linda Leo-Summers4 and Thomas M. Gill5, 1Rheumatology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, UT, 2Rheumatology, Dallas VA Medical Ctr, Dallas, TX, 3Rheumatology, Yale University School of Medicine, Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare Systems, New Haven, CT, 4Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 5Internal Medicine, Section of Geriatrics, Yale University, New Haven, CT

    Background/Purpose: Although back pain is common and costly, few longitudinal studies have evaluated the association between back pain severe enough to restrict activity [hereafter referred…
  • Abstract Number: 2392 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014

    Anti-Carbamylated Antibodies (anti-CarPA) Are Associated with Long Term Disability and Increased Disease Activity in Patients with Early Inflammatory Arthritis: Results from the Norfolk Arthritis Register (NOAR)

    Jenny H. Humphreys1, Marije K Verheul2, Anne Barton3,4, Tarnya Marshall5, Bo Fu6, René E.M. Toes7, Deborah PM Symmons1,4, Leendert A. Trouw7 and Suzanne MM Verstappen1, 1Arthritis Research UK Centre for Epidemiology, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, 2Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, 3Arthritis Research UK Centre for Genetics and Genomics, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, 4NIHR Manchester Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom, 5Rheumatology, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals Trust, Norwich, United Kingdom, 6Centre for Biostatistics, Institute of Population Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, 7Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands

    Background/Purpose: Anti-CarPA have been shown to predict development of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in patients with arthralgia.  However, little is known about their association with disease…
  • Abstract Number: 2854 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2013

    Restricting Back Pain and Subsequent Mobility Disability In Community-Living Older Persons

    Una E. Makris1, Liana Fraenkel2, Ling Han3, Linda Leo-Summers3 and Thomas M. Gill4, 1Rheumatology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, VA Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 2Medicine, Section of Rheumatology, Yale University School of Medicine, Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System, New Haven, CT, 3Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 4Internal Medicine, Section of Geriatrics, Yale University, New Haven, CT

    Background/Purpose: Although back pain is common and costly, few longitudinal studies have evaluated the association between back pain, severe enough to restrict activity (hereafter referred…

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