Abstracts tagged "Disease Activity and inflammation"

Abstract Number: 2323 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019
The Association Between Disease Activity with Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Sicong Huang ¹, Zeling He ¹, Daniel Solomon ², Elena Massarotti ³, Charlotte Golnik ¹, Thany Seyok ¹, Seth Brownmiller ⁴, Tianrun Cai ³, Nicole Yang ³, Laurel Campbell ³, Leanne Barrett ³, Courtney Bibbo ³, Kenneth Pariser ³, Derrick Todd ³, Marcy Bolster ⁴, Marcelo Di Carli ³ and Katherine Liao¹, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Brigham and Women´s Hospital, Div. of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Boston, MA, ³Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, ⁴Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Inflammation accounts for much of the excess cardiovascular disease (CVD) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We hypothesize that increased systemic inflammation leads to…