Abstracts tagged "disability and rheumatoid arthritis"

Abstract Number: 487 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2012
Functional Disability in Early Rheumatoid Arthritis – Contributions of Disease Activity and Structural Damage, and the Impact of Different Treatment Strategies
Josef S. Smolen¹, Roy Fleischmann², Paul Emery³, Ronald F. van Vollenhoven⁴, Stefan Florentinus⁵, Freddy Faccin⁶, Suchitrita S. Rathmann⁷, Hartmut Kupper⁸ and Arthur Kavanaugh⁹, ¹Medical University of Vienna and Hietzing Hospital, Vienna, Austria, ²Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, University of Texas, Dallas, TX, ³Medicine, Leeds Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, Leeds, United Kingdom, ⁴Unit for Clinical Trial Therapy research, The Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁵AbbVie, Rungis, France, ⁶Abbott, Abbott Park, IL, ⁷Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL, ⁸Immunology Development, Abbott GmbH and Co. KG, Ludwigshafen, Germany, ⁹UCSD School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA
Background/Purpose: Functional impairment among patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) can be conceptualized as consisting of a reversible component that relates to disease activity (ACT-HAQ) and…