Abstracts tagged "Disease Activity"

Abstract Number: 0580 • ACR Convergence 2025
Persistence and Disease Activity Control among Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis in the CorEvitas Psoriatic Arthritis/Spondyloarthritis Registry Initiating a Third or Higher Line of Biologic or Targeted Synthetic Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drug Therapy
Philip J. Mease¹, Nicole Middaugh², Yolanda Muñoz Maldonado², Chao Song³, Melissa Eliot², Robert Low³ and Alexis Ogdie⁴, ¹Department of Rheumatology, Providence-Swedish Medical Center and University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ²CorEvitas, LLC, Waltham, MA, ³UCB, Smyrna, GA, ⁴University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Background/Purpose: Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a chronic disease that causes inflammation of the joints, entheses, spine, skin, and nails.1 While available advanced treatments (txs) for…
Abstract Number: 0500 • ACR Convergence 2025
Is Methotrexate Tapering Possible In Stable RA? Clinical Observations of Methotrexate Tapering At Two Tertiary Care Centers
Sama Hajizadeh¹, Tarun Sharma¹, Peri Newman², Julio Hernandez², Rayford June³, Erik Lehman², Nicole Wilson¹, Nancy Olsen⁴ and Sharon Banks⁵, ¹Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, ²Penn State Health/ Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, ³Penn State College of Medicine/Lebanon VA Medical Center, Hummelstown, PA, ⁴Penn State University/Milton S Hershey, Hershey, PA, ⁵Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA
Background/Purpose: In our previous Rheumatoid Arthritis Medication TAPering (RheumTAP) cohort study of patients with stable RA in remission on biologics +/- methotrexate at Allegheny Health…
Abstract Number: 0431 • ACR Convergence 2025
Calprotectin Serum levels: a potential neutrophil activation biomarker to monitor treatment response in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Sangeeta Kumari¹, Eric meldrum¹, Josephine Stein¹, Tirza Bruurmijn¹, Robin de Jong², Katerina Pardali¹, Maarten Kraan¹, Renato Chirivi¹, Rogier Thurlings³ and Michael Nurmohamed², ¹Citryll BV, Oss, Netherlands, ²Reade, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ³Radboudumc, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Calprotectin is a protein highly expressed in myeloid cells and its elevated presence in blood, and the GI tract is associated with immune mediated…
Abstract Number: 0176 • ACR Convergence 2025
Development and Validation of an Accurate Patient Reported Outcome Measure-based Disease Activity Score to Enable Remote Monitoring in RA
Agnes Looijen¹, Paco Welsing², Sytske Anne Bergstra³, Annette van der Helm-van Mil³ and Pascal de Jong⁴, ¹Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ²Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, Utrecht, Netherlands, ³LUMC, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁴Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: For RA patients, regular monitoring of disease activity is essential, but in-person assessments may not always be feasible due to the increasing pressure on…
Abstract Number: 2422 • ACR Convergence 2025
Cluster Analysis of Autoantibodies in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Oihane Ibarguengoitia-Barrena¹, Leyre Riancho Zarrabeitia², Iñigo Rúa-Figueroa³, Karen Roberts⁴, Victor Martinez-Taboada⁵, Raúl Menor Almagro⁶, Belén Serrano-Benavente⁷, Paula Rubio-Muñoz⁸, María Galindo-Izquierdo⁹, Antonio Fernández-Nebro¹⁰, Maria Esther Ruiz Lucea¹¹, Jaime Calvo¹², Jose Francisco Garcia Llorente¹³, EVA GLORIA TOMERO MURIEL¹⁴, Maria Esther Uriarte¹⁵, Mercedes Freire González¹⁶, Angela Pecondón-Español¹⁷, Javier García-Fernández¹⁸, Lorena Expósito-Pérez¹⁹, Monica Ibañez Barcelo²⁰, Elena Aurrecoechea²¹, Carlos Montilla²², Jose Rosas Gómez de Salazar²³, Maria Garcia-Villanueva²⁴, Rocío Caño²⁵, Francisco Javier Toyos²⁶, Francisco Javier Novoa²⁷, Clara Moriano²⁸, Gema Bonilla²⁹, Javier Narváez³⁰, Jose Luis Andreu³¹, Marta Arévalo-Salaet³², Loreto Horacda-Rubio³³, Tatiana Cobo-Ibáñez³⁴, Nuria Lozano Rivas³⁵, Cristina Bohorquez³⁶, Carlota Laura Iniguez Ubiaga³⁷, Eva salgado-Pérez³⁸, Vicente Torrente Segarra³⁹, CARLOS TAREK SALMAN MONTE⁴⁰, JOSE ELOY OLLER RODRIGUEZ⁴¹ and José María Pego-Reigosa⁴², ¹Galdakao-Usansolo University Hospital, Bilbao, Spain, ²Hospital Sierrallana, Santander, Spain, ³Hospital de Gran Canaria Doctor Negrin, Las Palmas GC, Spain, ⁴Buenos Aires Instituto, West Reading, CA, ⁵Facultad de Medicina. Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain, ⁶Department of Rheumatology, Hospital de Jerez, Spain, Puerto De Santa María, Spain, ⁷Hospital Gregorio Marañon, Madrid, Spain, ⁸Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain, ⁹Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario ¹² de Octubre, Madrid, Spain, Madrid, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁰Hospital Regional Universitario de Malaga, Malaga, Spain, Malaga, Spain, ¹¹Basurto University Hospital, Bilbao, Spain, ¹²Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Araba, School of Medicne, Universidad del País Vasco, BIOARABA Health Research Institute, Vitoria, Spain, Vitoria, Pais Vasco, Spain, ¹³Hospital de Gadakao Usansolo Osakidetza, Bilbao, Spain, ¹⁴Hospital Universitario de la Princesa, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁵Hospital Universitario Donostia, San Sebastian, Spain, ¹⁶⁴ Hospital Universitario A Coruña, Rheumatology, A Coruña, La coruna, Spain, ¹⁷Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet, Zaragoza, Spain, ¹⁸Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ¹⁹University Clinical Hospital of Canarias, Tenerife, Spain, ²⁰Son Llàtzer University Hospital, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, ²¹Hospital Sierrallana, CANTABRIA, Spain, ²²Rheumatology Service, University Hospital of Salamanca, Salamanca, Castilla y Leon, Spain, ²³Hospital Marina Baixa, PALMA DE MALLORCA, Spain, ²⁴Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain, ²⁵Rheumatology Department, Dr. Balmis General University Hospital, Alicante, Spain., Alicante, Spain, ²⁶Virgen Macarena University Hospital,, Sevilla, Spain, ²⁷Hospital Insular de Gran Canaria, Las palmas, ²⁸Hospital León, LEON, Castilla y Leon, Spain, ²⁹Hospital Universitario La Paz, Rheumatology, Madrid, Madrid, Spain, ³⁰Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain, ³¹Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro, Majadahonda, Spain, ³²Consorci Corporació Sanitària Parc Taulí, Sabadell, Spain, ³³Hospital Complex of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, ³⁴Infanta Sofia Hospital, Madrid, Spain, ³⁵Hospital Clínico Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca,, Murcia, Spain, ³⁶La Paz University Hospital, Alcalá De Henares, Spain, ³⁷SERV. REUMATOLOGIA, Lugo, Spain, ³⁸Complejo Hospitalario de Orense, Santiago de Composte, Spain, ³⁹Hospital Comarcal del Alt Penedes, Madrid, Spain, ⁴⁰Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain, ⁴¹HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI I POLITÈCNIC LA FE, VALENCIA, Spain, ⁴²Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital of Vigo, Vigo, Spain; IRIDIS Group (Investigation in Rheumatology and Immune-Diseases), Galicia Sur Health Research Institute, Vigo, Spain
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a heterogeneous autoimmune disorder characterized by multi-organ involvement and variable clinical manifestations. Recurrent clinical patterns suggest distinct phenotypes, where…
Abstract Number: 2254 • ACR Convergence 2025
Association of disease activity with insomnia, depression, and fatigue in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a multicenter prospective observational study
Misako Higashida-Konishi¹, Keisuke Izumi², Shuntaro Saito Saito³, Hiroki Tabata⁴, Satoshi Hama⁴, Tatsuhiro Oshige⁴, Yutaka Okano⁴, Hisaji Oshima⁴, Katsuya Suzuki⁴, Jiro Sakamoto⁵, Toshikazu Fukami⁵, Kazumichi Minato⁵, Nobuhiko Kajio⁶, Yasushi Kondo³, Hiroaki Taguchi⁶ and Yuko Kaneko³, ¹NHO Tokyo Medical Center, Tokyo Meguroku, Japan, ²Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, NHO Tokyo Medical Center/Keio University School of Medicine/TechDoctor, Inc., Tokyo, Japan, ³Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, NHO Tokyo Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan, ⁵TechDoctor, Inc., Tokyo, Japan, ⁶Department of Rheumatology, Kawasaki Municipal Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan
Background/Purpose: Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) often experience not only joint-related symptoms but also systemic issues such as insomnia, depression, and fatigue [1–3]. These symptoms…
Abstract Number: 1677 • ACR Convergence 2025
First line anti-TNF therapy in early rheumatoid arthritis is associated with a lower frequency of difficult-to-treat disease at five years and better long-term outcomes compared with usual care
Task Toyoda¹, Kerem Abacar¹, Farag Shuweihdi², Megan Sheridan³, Jacqueline Nam³, Ai Lyn Tan⁴, Lesley-Anne Bissell³, Paul Emery⁵ and Kulveer Mankia⁵, ¹Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, England, United Kingdom, ²Dental Translational and Clinical Research Unit, School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, England, United Kingdom, ³Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, England, United Kingdom, ⁴NIHR Leeds Biomedical Research Centre, Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, Leeds; Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, England, United Kingdom, ⁵University of Leeds, Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: While conventional synthetic DMARDs (csDMARDs) remain first line therapy in early RA, most patients do not achieve sustained remission, and a subgroup develop difficult-to-treat…
Abstract Number: 1435 • ACR Convergence 2025
Impact of Treatment With Upadacitinib on Non-Nociceptive Pain and Its Relevance for the Presence of Residual Symptoms in Axial Spondyloarthritis: Results from a Multicountry Observational Study
Denis Poddubnyy¹, Victoria Navarro-Compan², Neil Basu³, Mohammad Naffaa⁴, Tianming Gao⁵, Christopher Saffore⁶, Jamie Urbanik⁷, Bhumik Parikh⁸, Peter Taylor⁹ and Philip J. Mease¹⁰, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and Department of Gastroenterology, Infectious Diseases and Rheumatology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Department of Epidemiology, German Rheumatism Research Centre, Berlin, Germany, ²Department of Rheumatology, La Paz University Hospital, IdiPaz, Madrid, Spain, ³Institute of Infection, Immunity & Inflammation, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, ⁴The Azriel's Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel; The Rheumatology Unity, Galilee Medical Center, Naharyia, Israel, ⁵AbbVie, North Chicago, IL, ⁶AbbVie Inc., waukegan, IL, ⁷AbbVie, Grayslake, IL, ⁸AbbVie, Hillsborough Township, NJ, ⁹University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, ¹⁰Department of Rheumatology, Providence-Swedish Medical Center and University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: Upadacitinib (UPA), an oral JAK inhibitor, has demonstrated improvements in inflammation and nociceptive pain in late phase clinical trials of patients with axSpA.1,2,3 However,…
Abstract Number: 1315 • ACR Convergence 2025
High-resolution thermography and Artificial Intelligence to evaluate and classify Rheumatoid Arthritis
Kale Mayor¹, Joey Mercier¹, Yuxi Long², David Robinson¹, Pingzhao Hu², Hani El-Gabalawy¹ and Liam O'Neil¹, ¹University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ²Western University, London, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune polyarthritis that typically affects the small joints of the hands and feet. While imaging modalities such as ultrasound…
Abstract Number: 0657 • ACR Convergence 2025
Preliminary Analysis Of Open-Label Dose-Titration Phase Of SLE Treatment With N-Acetylcysteine (SNAC) Shows Evidence For Potential Improvement Of SLEDAI, BILAG, ADHD And Fatigue Scores In Patients With Active SLE
FNU Ruchi¹, Ioana Coman¹, Bryan Blaker¹, Lucero Blaker¹, Joy Park², Jorge Cabezas¹, Dilip Rao¹, +Xiaojing Wang¹, Aparna Godavarthy¹, Marlene Marte Furment³, Sandy Nasr⁴, Sravani Lokineni⁵, Christina Donath⁴, SARA KAHLOWN⁶, Damira Sereda¹, Binod Kc¹, Ilya Ivyanskiy¹, Bhavya Poudyal⁷, Arthur Weinstein⁸, Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman⁹, Michael Weisman¹⁰, Cynthia Aranow¹¹, Mariko Ishimori¹⁰, Kyriakos Kirou¹², Jihad Ben Gabr¹³, Sheetal Rayancha¹⁴, Nancy Olsen¹⁵, Fotios Koumpouras¹⁶, Judith Lin¹⁷, Stephen Faraone¹, Daniel Wallace¹⁸, Michael McDermott¹⁹ and Andras Perl²⁰, ¹SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, ²Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, ³Medical Affiliates of Cape Cod, Hyannis, MA, ⁴SUNY Upstate University Hospital, Syracuse, NY, ⁵Deaconess Hospital, Evansville, IN, ⁶Suny upstate medical university, Camillus, NY, ⁷SUNY Upstate Medical University, Cicero, NY, ⁸retired from clinical practice, volunteer academic faculty, Claremont, CA, ⁹Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ¹⁰Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, LOS ANGELES, CA, ¹¹Institute of Molecular Medicine, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, ¹²Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ¹³Division of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, ¹⁴SUNY Upstate Medical University, Jamesville, NY, ¹⁵Penn State University/Milton S Hershey, Hershey, PA, ¹⁶Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, ¹⁷Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, ¹⁸Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Studio City, CA, ¹⁹University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, ²⁰SUNY, Syracuse, NY
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease of unknown etiology with mortality still approaching 10% in 5 years. The major causes of death…
Abstract Number: 0497 • ACR Convergence 2025
Drug Survival and Discontinuation Reasons of Eight Biological Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs in 1,182 Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Retrospective Study Using the Niigata Orthopedic Rheumatoid Arthritis Database (NOSRAD)
Nariaki Hao and Naoki Kondo, Division of Orthopedic Surgery, Niigata University Medical and Dental General Hospital, Niigata, Japan
Background/Purpose: To retrospectively evaluate drug survival and reasons for discontinuation of eight biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (bDMARDs) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients using the Niigata…
Abstract Number: 0425 • ACR Convergence 2025
High Density Lipoprotein Dysfunction in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis as Compared to Children without Rheumatologic Disease
Tahnee Spoden¹, Samira Nazzar Romero², Deborah McCurdy³, Alice Hoftman⁴, Sangmee Bae⁵, Jennifer Wang⁴, Ani Shahbazian⁴ and Christina Charles-Schoeman⁶, ¹UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ²Nemours Children's Health, Orlando, ³UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴UCLA, Los Angeles, ⁵UCLA Rheumatology, Los Angeles, CA, ⁶UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, CA
Background/Purpose: Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of mortality in patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). Normally, high density lipoprotein (HDL) acts in a cardioprotective capacity…
Abstract Number: 0584 • ACR Convergence 2025
Difficult-to-Manage Axial Spondyloarthritis According to ASAS Criteria in Reuma-Check Cohort: Frequency, Predictive Factors, and Treatment Patterns.
Rodrigo García Salinas¹, Nataly Mejia², Santiago Ruta³ and Sebastian Magri⁴, ¹Hospital Italiano La Plata, La Plata, Argentina, ²Hospital Italiano de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina, ³Hospital San Martin de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina, ⁴Hospital Italiano La Plata, Melchor Romero, Argentina
Background/Purpose: The concept of difficult-to-Manage axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA D2M), recently introduced by ASAS, describes patients who fail ≥2 lines of b-tsDMARDs treatment and remain active…
Abstract Number: 2409 • ACR Convergence 2025
Cutaneous Lupus Activity Investigator’s Global Assessment―Revised (CLA-IGA-R) Content Validity: Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus (CLE) Patient Qualitative Study
Joseph F Merola¹, Weihong Yang², Qianyun Li², Helen Doll³, Jason Randall³, Catherine Barbey⁴ and Feng Zeng², ¹Department of Dermatology and Department of Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ²Biogen, Cambridge, MA, ³Clinical Outcomes Solutions, Folkestone, Kent, United Kingdom, ⁴Biogen, Baar, Switzerland
Background/Purpose: The Cutaneous Lupus Activity Investigator’s Global Assessment-Revised (CLA-IGA-R) is an emerging clinician-reported outcome measure for severity of Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus (CLE) disease activity, developed…
Abstract Number: 2253 • ACR Convergence 2025
Wrist-worn Wearable Device Data Can Be a New Digital Biomarker For Disease Activity In Rheumatoid Arthritis: a Multicenter Single-arm Prospective Study
Misako Higashida-Konishi¹, Keisuke Izumi², Shuntaro Saito Saito³, Hiroki Tabata⁴, Satoshi Hama⁴, Tatsuhiro Oshige⁴, Yutaka Okano⁴, Hisaji Oshima⁴, Katsuya Suzuki⁴, Jiro Sakamoto⁵, Toshikazu Fukami⁵, Kazumichi Minato⁵, Nobuhiko Kajio⁶, Yasushi Kondo³, Hiroaki Taguchi⁶ and Yuko Kaneko³, ¹NHO Tokyo Medical Center, Tokyo Meguroku, Japan, ²Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, NHO Tokyo Medical Center/Keio University School of Medicine/TechDoctor, Inc., Tokyo, Japan, ³Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, NHO Tokyo Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan, ⁵TechDoctor, Inc., Tokyo, Japan, ⁶Department of Rheumatology, Kawasaki Municipal Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan
Background/Purpose: Previous studies have estimated physical and mental states using wearable device data such as from smartwatches [1–3]. This study aimed to identify digital biomarkers…

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