Abstracts tagged "Disease Activity"

Abstract Number: 1313 • ACR Convergence 2023
Remotely Supervised Weight Loss and Exercise Training Improves Disease Activity and Patient Reported Outcomes in Older Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Brian Andonian, Leanna Ross, Alyssa Sudnick, Johanna Johnson, Carl Pieper, Connie Bales, Kathryn Porter Starr, William Kraus and Kim Huffman, Duke University, Durham, NC
Background/Purpose: Older persons with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are at increased risk for sarcopenic obesity, physical disability, adverse drug events, and cardiovascular disease; thus, there is…
Abstract Number: 1437 • ACR Convergence 2023
Bimekizumab Maintained Efficacy Responses Through 52 Weeks in Biologic Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drug-Naïve Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis Who Were Responders at Week 16: Results from a Phase 3, Active-Reference Study
William R Tillett¹, Joseph Merola², Yoshiya Tanaka³, Ennio G Favalli⁴, Dennis McGonagle⁵, Jessica A Walsh⁶, Diamant Thaçi⁷, Barbara Ink⁸, Rajan Bajracharya⁸, Vanessa Taieb⁹ and Christopher T Ritchlin¹⁰, ¹Department of Rheumatology, Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Bath, United Kingdom, ²Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Newton, MA, ³University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan, ⁴ASST Gaetano Pini-CTO, University of Milan, Department of Rheumatology, Milan, Italy, ⁵Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Academic Unit for the Musculoskeletal Diseases, Leeds, United Kingdom, ⁶Salt Lake City Veterans Affairs Health and University of Utah Health, Division of Rheumatology, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁷Institute and Comprehensive Center for Inflammation Medicine, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany, ⁸UCB Pharma, Slough, United Kingdom, ⁹UCB Pharma, Colombes, France, ¹⁰University of Rochester Medical School, Allergy, Immunology & Rheumatology Division, Canandaigua, NY
Background/Purpose: Given the chronic nature of PsA, sustaining high levels of disease control with treatment is important. Assessing maintenance of response in patients (pts) that…
Abstract Number: 1896 • ACR Convergence 2023
Systematic Review and Analysis of Mobile Apps for Rheumatoid Arthritis Using the Mobile Application Rating Scale
Pamela Gonzalez Manrique¹, Vinit Gilvaz², Ravinder Kaler³, Neha Batra³ and Anthony Reginato², ¹Roger Williams Medical Center, North Providence, RI, ²The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, ³Roger Williams Medical Center, Providence, RI
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a systemic autoimmune disease characterized by inflammatory polyarthritis with infrequent extra-articular involvement. The management of RA typically requires frequent clinic…
Abstract Number: 2239 • ACR Convergence 2023
Achievement of Disease Control in PsA Patients Treated with Upadacitinib at Week 152: Post Hoc Analysis of the Long-term Extensions of Two Phase 3 Trials
Arthur Kavanaugh¹, Kristi Mizelle², Oliver FitzGerald³, Enrique Soriano⁴, Peter Nash⁵, Sandra Ciecinski⁶, Limei Zhou⁶, Arathi Setty⁶ and Laure Gossec⁷, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, ²Tidewater Physicians Multispecialty Group, Newport News, VA, ³Conway Institute for Biomolecular Research, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, ⁴Rheumatology Section, Internal Medicine Services, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, and University Institute Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ⁵School of Medicine, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, ⁶AbbVie, Inc., North Chicago, IL, ⁷Sorbonne Université and Pitié Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: A main goal of therapy for patients (pts) with PsA is to achieve and maintain the lowest possible level of disease activity across domains.1…
Abstract Number: 2365 • ACR Convergence 2023
Decoding the Peripheral Immune Landscape of Systemic Sclerosis to Investigate Disease Stages and Interstitial Lung Disease Progression
Vasuki Ranjani Chellamuthu¹, Maria Noviani², Ahmad bin Mohamed Lajam¹, Andrea Hsiu Ling Low² and Salvatore Albani¹, ¹Translational Immunology Institute, SingHealth, Singapore, Singapore, ²Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a heterogenous autoimmune disease characterized by fibrosis, vascular abnormalities and immune dysregulation. Characterization of peripheral blood immune signatures in relation…
Abstract Number: 0336 • ACR Convergence 2023
Core Signs Associated with the Subtypes of Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus: Concept Elicitation Interviews with Dermatologists and Rheumatologists
victoria werth¹, Annegret Kuhn², Joseph F. Merola³, Joerg Wenzel⁴, Cristina Vazquez-Mateo⁵, Sanjeev Roy⁶, Erik Thomas⁵, Oliver Guenther⁷, Ying Sun⁷, Alexandra Lauer⁷, Almary Guerra Rodriguez⁸, Patricia Koochaki⁹ and Paul Kamudoni⁷, ¹University of Pennsylvania, Wynnewood, PA, ²Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, and University of Münster, Münster, Germany, ³Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁴University Hospital of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, ⁵EMD Serono, Billerica, MA, ⁶Ares Trading SA, Eysins, Switzerland, an affiliate of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, ⁷the healthcare business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, ⁸Laife Reply GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, ⁹ICON Clinical Research LLC, Raleigh, NC
Background/Purpose: Greater understanding of cutaneous signs and symptoms is needed to comprehensively define and measure cutaneous disease activity in lupus erythematosus. Herein, we interviewed dermatologic…
Abstract Number: 0516 • ACR Convergence 2023
Drivers of Treatment Intensification in Patients with Axial Spondyloarthritis and High Disease Activity: Results from a Clinical Practice Registry
Casper Webers¹, Rabab Nezam El-Din¹, Marin Been¹, Harald Vonkeman² and Astrid van Tubergen¹, ¹Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, Netherlands, ²Department of Rheumatology, Medisch Spectrum Twente and University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: In the management of axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA), treatment intensification (TI) is recommended in patients with high disease activity (HDA). However, in practice, in most…
Abstract Number: 0807 • ACR Convergence 2023
Inferring Disease Activity Scores and Low Disease Activity at Registry Visits Based on Structured and Narrative Data from Electronic Health Records
David Cheng¹, Dana Weisenfeld², Kumar Dahal², Qing Liu², Vidul Ayakulangara Panickan³, Mary Jeffway², Thany Seyok², Gregory McDermott², Michael Weinblatt⁴, Nancy Shadick⁵, Tianxi Cai⁶ and Katherine Liao², ¹Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁴Harvard Medical School, Waban, MA, ⁵Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁶Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Real-world data including electronic health records (EHRs) are a promising resource for learning to optimize treatment strategies for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). A major challenge…
Abstract Number: 1047 • ACR Convergence 2023
Infrared Thermography Imaging Discriminates Between Inflamed and Non-inflamed Joints
Maria I. ("Maio") Danila¹, Giovanna Rosas², Fenglong Xie², Jeffrey R Curtis³, Kiara Aaron², Stephanie Ford² and Laura Hughes⁴, ¹University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Birmingham VA Medical Center, Birmingham, AL, ²University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ³Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, ⁴University of Alabama at Birmingham; East Alabama Medical Center, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: Infrared thermography (IRT) is an emerging technology that has the potential to rapidly assist in identifying joint inflammation in patients with joint symptoms. However,…
Abstract Number: 1341 • ACR Convergence 2023
Impact of Ultrasound on Physician Assessments of Patients with RA with Elevated Clinical Disease Activity Scores
Stephanie Song¹, Odette Kolenky¹, Antje Greenfield², Dana Direnzo³, Joshua Baker⁴ and Michael George⁴, ¹Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, PA, ³University of Pennsylvania, Bala Cynwyd, PA, ⁴University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Background/Purpose: Treat-to-target is recommended in RA, but physicians often do not escalate therapy despite elevated disease activity measures due to uncertainty regarding the true degree…
Abstract Number: 1438 • ACR Convergence 2023
Efficacy of Guselkumab in Early-Onset and Late-Onset Psoriatic Arthritis: Post Hoc Pooled Analyses of Two Phase 3 Randomized Controlled Trials in Patients with Active PsA
Enrique Soriano¹, Mitsumasa Kishimoto², Emmanouil Rampakakis³, Francois Nantel⁴, May Shawi⁵, Frederic Lavie⁶, Philip J. Mease⁷ and Dafna Gladman⁸, ¹Rheumatology Section, Internal Medicine Services, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, and University Institute Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ²Kyorin University School of Medicine, Yokohoma, Japan, ³McGill University, Department of Pediatrics / JSS Medical Research, Scientific Affairs, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁴Nantel Medsci Consult, Consultant, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁵Immunology, Janssen Research & Development, LLC, Titusville, NJ, ⁶The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, Paris, France, ⁷Swedish Medical Center/Providence St. Joseph Health and University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, ⁸Schroeder Arthritis Institute, Krembil Research Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Late-onset PsA may be associated with elevated acute phase reactants, higher joint count, and erosive disease at diagnosis1,2. Given potential phenotype differences and increasing…
Abstract Number: 1901 • ACR Convergence 2023
Which ASDAS-ESR Cut-offs for Disease Activity Correspond to ASDAS-CRP Cut-offs in Axial Spondyloarthritis? – Results from the EuroSpA Collaboration
Stylianos Georgiadis¹, Lykke Ørnbjerg¹, Brigitte Michelsen², Tore Kvien³, Daniela Di Giuseppe⁴, Johan Karlsson Wallman⁵, Jakub Zavada⁶, Sella Provan⁷, Ana Maria Rodrigues⁸, Maria Jose Santos⁹, Ziga Rotar¹⁰, Dan Nordstrom¹¹, Anna-Mari Hokkanen¹², Gary Macfarlane¹³, Gareth T. Jones¹³, Irene van der Horst-Bruinsma¹⁴, Pasoon Hellamand¹⁵, Mikkel Østergaard¹⁶ and Merete Hetland¹, ¹Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark, ²Rigshospitalet Glostrup; Diakonhjemmet Hospital; Sørlandet Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark, ³Center for Treatment of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases (REMEDY), Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ⁴Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁵Lund University and Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden, ⁶Institute of Rheumatology; Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, ⁷Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ⁸Sociedade Portuguesa de Reumatologia; Nova Medical School; Hospital dos Lusíadas, Lisbon, Portugal, ⁹Hospital Garcia de Orta, Almada, Lisboa, Portugal, ¹⁰University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, ¹¹Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, ¹²Helsinki University and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, ¹³Aberdeen Centre for Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Health (Epidemiology Group), University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, ¹⁴Radboud University Medical Centre, Department of Rheumatology, Nijmegen, Netherlands, ¹⁵Amsterdam University Medical Centers, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ¹⁶Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Centre for Head and Orthopaedics, Rigshospitalet; University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Background/Purpose: When assessing disease activity in patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA), the Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Score with C-reactive protein (ASDAS-CRP) is recommended over ASDAS…
Abstract Number: 2261 • ACR Convergence 2023
Burden of Flare and Organ Damage in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) in the Asia Pacific Region: A Multicenter Cohort Study
Rangi Kandane-Rathnayake¹, Dominique Milea², Worawit Louthrenoo³, Alberta Hoi⁴, Vera Golder¹, Jiacai Cho⁵, Aisha Lateef⁵, Shue-Fen Luo⁶, Yeong-Jian J Wu⁷, Laniyati Hamijoyo⁸, Sargunan Sockalingam⁹, Zhanguo Li¹⁰, Sandra Navarra¹¹, Leonid Zamora¹¹, Masayoshi Harigai¹², Yasuhiro Katsumata¹², Madelynn Chan¹³, Yanjie Hao¹⁴, Zhuoli Zhang¹⁵, Sean O’Neill¹⁶, Fiona Goldblatt¹⁷, Shereen Oon¹⁸, Xiaomeng Xu², Aldo Amador Navarro Rojas¹⁹, Sang-Cheol Bae²⁰, Chak Sing Lau²¹, Mandana Nikpour²² and Eric Morand²³, ¹Monash University, Department of Medicine, Sub-faculty of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Clayton, Australia, ²GlaxoSmithKline, Value Evidence and Outcomes, Singapore, Singapore, ³Chiang Mai University Hospital, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai, Thailand, ⁴Monash University, Department of Medicine, Sub-faculty of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Melbourne, Australia, ⁵National University Hospital, Rheumatology Division, Department of Medicine, Singapore, Singapore, ⁶Chang Gung University, Department of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan, ⁷Chang Gung University, Department of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan, ⁸Padjadjaran University/Hasan Sadikin General Hospital, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Bandung, Indonesia, ⁹University of Malaya, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Building, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ¹⁰Peking University Health Science Center, Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, People's Hospital, Beijing, China, ¹¹University of Santo Tomas Hospital, Joint and Bone Center, Manila, Philippines, ¹²Tokyo Women's Medical University, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, ¹³Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Department of Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology, Singapore, Singapore, ¹⁴St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, Department of Rheumatology, Melbourne, Australia, ¹⁵Peking University First Hospital, Rheumatology and Immunology Department, Beijing, China, ¹⁶Department of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Kensington, Australia, ¹⁷Royal Adelaide Hospital and Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, Australia, ¹⁸University of Melbourne at St Vincent’s Hospital, Departments of Rheumatology and Medicine, Fitzroy, Australia, ¹⁹GlaxoSmithKline, Medical Affairs, Singapore, Singapore, ²⁰Hanyang University Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases and Hanyang University Institute for Rheumatology Research, Department of Rheumatology, Seoul, South Korea, ²¹University of Hong Kong, Division of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, ²²The University of Melbourne at St. Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, Departments of Medicine and Rheumatology, Melbourne, Australia, ²³Monash University, Centre for Inflammatory Diseases, Melbourne, Australia
Background/Purpose: Up to 50% of patients with SLE develop irreversible organ damage within 10 years of diagnosis, and most experience recurrent disease flares of varying…
Abstract Number: 2435 • ACR Convergence 2023
Deciphering Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity-Associated Gene Signatures and Cell Subsets Through Single Cell Transcriptomics
Marie Binvignat¹, Brenda Miao², Camilla Wibrand³, Monica Yang⁴, Dmitry Rychkov⁵, Emily Flynn⁴, Umair Khan⁴, Joanne Nititham⁶, Alex Carvidi⁴, Melissa Krueger⁴, Erene Niemi⁴, Yang Sun⁴, Gabriella Fragiadakis⁴, David Klatzmann¹, Jeremie SELLAM⁷, Encarnita Mariotti-Ferrandiz¹, Andrew Gross⁴, Chun Jimmie Ye⁴, Atul Butte⁴, Lindsey Criswell⁶, Mary Nakamura⁸ and Marina Sirota⁵, ¹Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, ²University of California San Francisco, Fremont, CA, ³Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁴University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁵Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁶NIH/NHGRI, Bethesda, MD, ⁷Sorbonne Université APHP, Paris, France, ⁸UCSF/SFVAHCS, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Single cell transcriptional profiling (scRNA-Seq) is valuable in identifying gene signatures and cell subpopulations associated with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However prior studies have often…
Abstract Number: 0357 • ACR Convergence 2023
Validation of the Juvenile Spondyloarthritis Disease Activity Index in a Prospective Clinical Trial Setting
Pamela F. Weiss¹, Nicolino Ruperto², Erhard Quebe-Fehling³, Alexis Shew⁴, Luminita Pricop⁵, Christelle Pieterse³ and Hermine Brunner⁶, ¹Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, ²IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, UOSID Centro Trial, Genova, Italy, ³Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland, ⁴Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, St. Louis, MO, ⁵Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, East Hanover, NJ, ⁶Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Division of Rheumatology, Cincinnati, OH
Background/Purpose: The juvenile spondyloarthritis disease activity index (JSpADA) is a disease activity assessment tool developed for children with juvenile psoriatic arthritis (JPsA) and enthesitis related…

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