Abstracts tagged "Disability"

Abstract Number: 1835 • ACR Convergence 2023
A Survey on Fibromyalgia-Related Knowledge Among Internal Medicine Residents
Summia Matin Afridi¹, Ahmad Raja² and Muhammad Daniyal³, ¹Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY, ²Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, Evanston, IL, ³Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, Cooperstown, NY
Background/Purpose: Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain syndrome that commonly presents with fatigue, widespread musculoskeletal pain, and sleep disturbances. Patients can also have accompanying somatic and…
Abstract Number: 1838 • ACR Convergence 2023
The Burden of Dysautonomia in Patients Suffering from Pathologies Associated with Generalized Joint Hypermobility
Alizée Perrein¹, Fabien Pontille¹, Paul Decker², david Attali³, Thomas Moulinet⁴ and Roland Jaussaud⁵, ¹Département de Médecine interne et immunologie clinique, Université de Lorraine / CHRU de Nancy, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France, ²Nancy hospital, France, Nancy, France, ³Université Paris Cité, Laboratoire Psychopathologie et Processus de Santé, Boulogne-Billancourt, France, ⁴Department of Internal Medicine, Centre hospitalier universitaire de Nancy, Nancy, France, ⁵Département de Médecine interne et immunologie clinique, Université de Lorraine / CHRU de Nancy, Vandoeuvre Les Nancy, France
Background/Purpose: Hypermobility spectrum disorders (HSD) and hypermobile Ehlers Danlos syndrome (hEDS) are among the conditions associated with generalized joint hypermobility (GJH). Alongside myofascial and skeletal…
Abstract Number: 1976 • ACR Convergence 2023
Distribution and Validity of Proposed Disability Categories from the Short-Valued Life Activities Questionnaire
Louise Thoma¹, Kelli Allen², Beth Jonas³ and Patti Katz⁴, ¹University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, ²University of North Carolina, Durham, NC, ³University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁴University of California San Francisco, San Rafael, CA
Background/Purpose: Rehabilitation (i.e., physical therapy and occupational therapy) is indicated to improve function and participation in life activities. Rehabilitation utilization is low among adults with…
Abstract Number: 2118 • ACR Convergence 2023
New Onset Disability in Rheumatoid Arthritis Is an Underrecognized Cardiovascular Risk Factor: A Retrospective Cohort Study Using the CorEvitas Registry
Robert Spandorfer¹, Kevin Kane², George Reed², Dimitrios Pappas², Joel Kremer², Jeffrey Curtis³ and Iris Navarro-Millán⁴, ¹Hospital for Special Surgery, Brooklyn, NY, ²CorEvitas, LLC, Waltham, MA, ³University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁴Weill Cornell Medicine, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the most common cause of death among patients with RA. Prior research found a higher rate of CVD events associated…
Abstract Number: 1056 • ACR Convergence 2022
Clinical Characterization of a Cohort of Patient with Sclerotic-type Chronic Graft-versus-host Disease with Fascial/joint Involvement
Cristina Hidalgo¹, Concepción Roman², Olga Compan³, Sonia Pastor Navarro⁴, Marta Ibañez⁵, Belen Miguel⁶, Maria Dolores Sanchez⁷, Lucía Pantoja⁸, Carlos Montilla⁵ and Lucía López-Corral², ¹Hospital Universitario Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, ²Universitary Hospital, Salamanca, Spain, ³Complejo asistencial Universitario de Palencia, Carbajosa De La Sagrada, Spain, ⁴Hospital Universitario de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, ⁵Complejo asistencial Universitario de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, ⁶University Hospital, Salamanca, Spain, ⁷Universitary Hospital, Valladolid, Spain, ⁸Complejo Asistencial Hospital General, Segovia, Spain
Background/Purpose: Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is the most frequent complication after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT). Its chronic form usually involves a multisystemic syndrome that reflects…
Abstract Number: 1070 • ACR Convergence 2022
Discordance of Patient, Physician and Nurse Practitioner Assessment of Disease Burden in Systemic Sclerosis
Maylen Nordgård Carstens¹, Håvard Fretheim¹, Imon Barua¹, Henriette Didriksen², Torhild Garen¹, Øyvind Midtvedt¹, Øyvind Molberg³ and Anna-Maria Hoffmann-Vold¹, ¹Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ²Oslo University Hospital, Moss, Norway, ³Department of Rheumatology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, Oslo, Norway
Background/Purpose: Assessment of disease burden is crucial in the management of systemic sclerosis (SSc). The patient global assessment (PatGA) is a patient self-reported measure widely…
Abstract Number: 1336 • ACR Convergence 2022
Productivity Analysis in Patients with Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies and Relationship with Quality of Life and Emotional Domain: Preliminary Data from a Monocentric Cohort
Chiara Cardelli¹, Michele Diomedi¹, Simone Barsotti¹, Alessandra Tripoli², Linda Carli¹ and Marta Mosca¹, ¹Rheumatology Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ²Rheumatology Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Vecchiano, Italy
Background/Purpose: Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies (IIM) are chronic diseases often causing disability in patients, associated with both disease activity and damage accrual. These conditions might reduce…
Abstract Number: 1505 • ACR Convergence 2022
Blue-collar Workers with Psoriatic Arthritis: Disease Activity, Work Disability and Response to Biologics
Nina Colla¹, Julia-Tatjana Maul², Burkhard Moeller³, Michael Nissen⁴, Nikhil Yawalkar⁵, Eleftherios Papagiannoulis⁶, Oliver Distler¹, Adrian Ciurea⁷ and Raphael Micheroli⁸, ¹Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland, ²Department of Dermatology and Venereology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland, ³Inselspital - University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland, ⁴Hopitaux Universitaires de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland, ⁵Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Inselspital Bern, Bern, Switzerland, ⁶Statistics Group, SCQM Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland., Zürich, ⁷University Hospital Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland, ⁸University Hospital Zurich, Department of Rheumatology, Zürich, Switzerland
Background/Purpose: Biomechanical stress is a possible trigger of inflammation in psoriatic arthritis (PsA). The influence of physically demanding occupations on this potential association has not…
Abstract Number: 1516 • ACR Convergence 2022
How Disease Activity Can Affect Workability in Spondyloarthropaties: A Monocentric Cohort Analysis
Federico Fattorini¹, Cosimo Cigolini², Gabriele Marchetti³, Andrea Delle Sedie⁴, Linda Carli⁵ and Marta Mosca⁵, ¹Rheumatology Unit, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ²Rheumatology Unit, University of Pisa, Pisa, Toscana, Italy, ³University of Pisa, Pisa, Toscana, Italy, ⁴University of Pisa, Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ⁵Rheumatology Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, PISA, Italy
Background/Purpose: Spondyloarthropathies (SpA) may compromise the working ability (WA) of patients, often affected by the disease during their productive life. The Work Productivity and Activity…
Abstract Number: 1706 • ACR Convergence 2022
Clinical and Immunological Factors Associated with Chronic Post-COVID19 Syndrome 12 Months After Acute Infection
Emmanuel Abimelec Camacho-Morán¹, jiram torres-Ruiz¹, Jaquelin Lira-Luna¹, Ana Sofía Vargas-Castro², Alfredo Pérez-Fragoso¹, Miroslava Nuñez-Aguirre², Beatriz Alcalá-Carmona³, Abdiel Absalón-Aguilar³ and Diana Gómez-Martín¹, ¹INCMNSZ, Ciudad de México, Mexico, ²Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion "Salvador Zubiran", Ciudad de México, Mexico, ³Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Ciudad de México, Mexico
Background/Purpose: Post-COVID19 syndrome has been defined as the persistence of symptoms and/or organic damage for more than three weeks after the presence of clinical infection…
Abstract Number: PP26 • ACR Convergence 2022
Chronically Catherine: A Sex and the City-Inspired Autobiographical Column for Disabled Young Adults on Subjects We Really Care About – Like Disabled Dating and How Hot Cheetos Saved My Life
Catherine Ames¹, Courtney Wells² and Kristine Carandang¹, ¹Young Patients' Autoimmune Research & Empowerment Alliance, San Diego, CA, ²University of Wisconsin-River Falls; Young Patients' Autoimmune Research and Empowerment Alliance, St. Paul, MN
Background/Purpose: What if Carrie Bradshaw, sex advice columnist, fashionsta, and all around icon from Sex and the City were chronically ill? Or disabled? That's the…
Abstract Number: 0160 • ACR Convergence 2022
Sarcopenia in Myositis Patients: A Marker of Muscle Damage Associated with Myositis Severity and Disability
Margherita Giannini¹, Léa Debrut², Anne-Laure Charles², Mégane Pizzimenti², Rose-Marie Javier³, Bernard Geny⁴ and Alain Meyer¹, ¹Service de Physiologie et explorations fonctionnelles, CHU, Strasbourg ; Centre de Référence des Maladies Autoimmunes Rares, CHU, Strasbourg ; UR3072, Centre de Recherche en Biomédecine, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, ²UR3072 Centre de Recherche en Biomédecine, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, ³Service de Rhumatologie, Centre de Référence des Maladies Autoimmunes Rares, University Hospital of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, ⁴Service de Physiologie et explorations fonctionnelles, CHU, Strasbourg ; UR3072 Centre de Recherche en Biomédecine, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Background/Purpose: Myositis are autoimmune diseases characterized by muscle inflammation and weakness. Even when disease is no longer active, a great proportion of patients does not…
Abstract Number: 0196 • ACR Convergence 2022
The Impact of Barometric Pressure Waves on Connective Tissue Disorders
Fehmida Zahabi¹ and Kevin Kerr², ¹Texas Rheumatology Care, Plano, TX, ²Chimera Innovations LLC, Allen, TX
Background/Purpose: Pain is a disabling, depressing state which reduces an individual's productivity. Weather changes have been vaguely attributed to cause pain. Previous studies have had…
Abstract Number: 0833 • ACR Convergence 2022
Disability Among Persons with Chronic Severe Back Pain: Results from a Nationally Representative Population Based Sample
Debbie Feldman¹ and Richard Nahin², ¹University of Montreal, Montréal, QC, Canada, ²NIH, Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: With the high prevalence of back pain and the high costs associated with the cases that become chronic there has been an emphasis on…
Abstract Number: 0834 • ACR Convergence 2022
Use of the Routine Assessment of Patient Index Data 3 (RAPID3) Questionnaire in the Assessment of Chronic Lower Back Pain
Brendan Thoms¹, Bradley Tompkins² and Chi Chi Lau¹, ¹University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, VT, ²University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
Background/Purpose: Chronic lower back pain (LBP) is a common primary care presentation with substantial socio-economic impact. There are several indices to measure pain / function…

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