Abstracts tagged "Disease Activity"

Abstract Number: 1537 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Concomitant Treatment with Methotrexate Does Not Increase the Efficacy of Ustekinumab or TNF Inhibitors in Psoriatic Arthritis: Results from a Real-world, Multicenter Study
Stefan Siebert¹, Elisa Gremese ², Paul Bergmans ³, Kurt De Vlam ⁴, Beatriz Joven-Ibáñez ⁵, Gkikas Katsifis ⁶, Tatiana Korotaeva ⁷, Wim Noël ⁸, Carlo Selmi ⁹, Petros Sfikakis ¹⁰, Pavel Smirnov ¹¹, Elke Theander ¹², Michael Nurmohamed ¹³, Laure Gossec ¹⁴ and Josef Smolen ¹⁵, ¹Institute of Infection, Immunity & Inflammation, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, ²Fondazione Policlinico Gemelli-Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy, ³Biostatistics and Medical Affairs, Janssen, Tilburg, Netherlands, ⁴University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, ⁵Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain, ⁶Naval Hospital of Athens, Rheumatology Clinic, Athens, Greece, ⁷Nasonova Research Institute of Rheumatology, Moscow, Russia, ⁸Biostatistics and Medical Affairs, Janssen, Brussels, Belgium, ⁹Humanitas Research Hospital, University of Milan, Milan, Italy, ¹⁰Joint Rheumatology Programme, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece, Athens, Greece, ¹¹Biostatistics and Medical Affairs, Janssen, Moscow, Russia, ¹²Biostatistics and Medical Affairs, Janssen, Solna, Sweden, ¹³Reade and VU Rheumatology Research Department, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ¹⁴Sorbonne Université and Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France, ¹⁵Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Background/Purpose: The additional benefit of methotrexate as a concomitant treatment in PsA has not been fully elucidated. Observational data exist for concomitant methotrexate (MTX) use…
Abstract Number: 502 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Disease Activity Measures at Baseline and 3 Months as Predictors of Rapid Radiographic Progression in Methotrexate Naïve Patients with Early Rheumatoid Arthritis
Mohammad Movahedi ¹, Deborah Weber ¹, Pooneh Akhavan ² and Edward Keystone³, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Division of Rheumatology, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada, ³Mount Sinai Hospital and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Progressive rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is responsible for disabilities in this patient population, characterized by radiographic joint damage. Achieving low disease activity (LDA) in RA…
Abstract Number: 1559 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Routine Clinical Pathology Measurements Are Predictive of the Risk of Organ Damage Accrual in SLE
Eric Morand¹, Kevin Zhang ¹, Sarah Boyd ¹, Francois Petitjean ¹, Alberta Hoi ², Rachel Koelmeyer ¹ and Hieu Nim ¹, ¹Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, ²School of Clinical Sciences, Monash University, Meloburne, Victoria, Australia
Background/Purpose: Prevention of permanent organ damage, a major predictor of morbidity and mortality, is a key goal in the treatment of SLE. Physician-measured disease activity…
Abstract Number: 564 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
ASDAS Is More Important Than BASDAI in Advanced Ankylosing Spondylitis
Jae-Bum Jun¹, Bon San Koo ², Seunghun Lee ³, Jinju Kim ⁴, Juyeon Kang ¹ and Tae-Hwan Kim ¹, ¹Hanyang University Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ²Department of Internal Medicine, Inje University Seoul Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ³Dertment of Radiology, Hanyang University Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ⁴Novartis Korea Ltd., Seoul
Background/Purpose: In patients with ankylosing spondylitis, the Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index (BASDAI) is used to measure disease activity to initiate or maintain TNF…
Abstract Number: 1615 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
The Effects of Anti-glutamate Receptor Subunit Antiantibodies on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Without Neuropsychiatric Involvement
Yoshiyuki Arinuma ¹, Yasuhiro Hasegawa ¹, Takumi Muramatsu¹, Yu Matsueda ¹ and Kunihiro Yamaoka ¹, ¹Department of Rheumatology and Infectious Diseaes, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
Background/Purpose: Autoantibodies against N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor subunit GluN2 (anti-GluN2) in the cerebrospinal fluid are known to be related with the development of diffuse psychiatric/neuropsychological manifestations in…
Abstract Number: 679 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Longitudinal Changes in Manifestations of SLE
Amanda Eudy¹, Jennifer Rogers ¹, Raeann Whitney ¹, Lisa Criscione-Schreiber ¹, Jayanth Doss ¹, David Pisetsky ², Rebecca Sadun ¹, Kai Sun ¹ and Megan Clowse ¹, ¹Duke University, Durham, ²Duke University, Durham VAMC, Durham
Background/Purpose: Our group has developed a conceptual model to categorize SLE manifestations into two dimensions termed Type 1 and Type 2. Type 1 SLE consists…
Abstract Number: 1725 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Disease Activity in Childhood-Onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Initial Analysis of the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance Registry
Emily Smitherman¹, Mary Beth Son ², Andrea Knight ³, Timothy Beukelman ⁴, Jeffrey Curtis ¹ and Aimee Hersh ⁵, ¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Division of Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴University of Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁵University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Background/Purpose: Substantial risk of early morbidity and mortality exists for patients with childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus (cSLE) despite widespread use of immunosuppressive therapy. There are…
Abstract Number: 743 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Association Between Acute-phase Reactants, interleukin-6(IL6), Tumor Necrosis Factor-a(TNFa) and Disease Activity in Takayasu’s Arteritis During Follow-up with Repeated Evaluation of Vascular Imaging Manifestations
JIng LI¹, Yunjiao Yang ¹, Yanhong WANG ², Jiuliang Zhao ¹, Mengtao Li ³, Xinping Tian ¹ and Xiaofeng Zeng ¹, ¹Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China (People's Republic), ²Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, School of Basic Medicine, Beijing, China (People's Republic), ³Dept. of Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital (West Campus), Beijing, China, Beijing, China (People's Republic)
Background/Purpose: To investigate the laboratory indicators of disease activity during follow-up of Takayasu’s arteritis(TAK).Methods: Electronic data of 588 patients with TAK enrolled in the Chinese…
Abstract Number: 1829 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Ability of Inflammatory and Regulatory Soluble Mediators to Forecast Impending Clinical Disease Flare and Inform a Refined Lupus Flare Prediction Index in a Confirmatory Cohort of SLE Patients
Melissa E. Munroe¹, Sarah Kleckner ¹, Wade DeJager ¹, Susan R. Macwana ¹, Joel Guthridge ², Eldon Jupe ³, Mohan Purushothaman ³, Sanjiv Sharma ³, Nancy Redinger ¹, Teresa Aberle ¹, Stan Kamp ¹, Cristina Arriens ², Eliza F. Chakravarty ², Joan T. Merrill ⁴ and Judith James ², ¹Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ²Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, ³Progentec Diagnostics, Inc., Oklahoma City, OK, ⁴Okalahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK
Background/Purpose: SLE is marked by altered immune regulation linked to waxing and waning clinical disease activity. This study seeks to verify the alteration of inflammatory…
Abstract Number: 946 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Improvements in Disease Activity and Quality of Life for up to 64 Weeks in Patients with Behçet’s Syndrome: Results from a Phase III Study
Gulen Hatemi¹, Alfred Mahr ², Mitsuhiro Takeno ³, Doyoung Kim ⁴, Melike Melikoglu ⁵, Sue Cheng ⁶, Shannon McCue ⁷, Maria Paris ⁶, Mindy Chen ⁸ and Yusuf Yazici ⁹, ¹Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Behcet's Disease Research Center, Istanbul, Turkey, Istanbul, Turkey, ²Hospital Saint-Louis, University Paris Diderot, Paris, France, ³Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan, ⁴Yonsei University College of Medicine and Severance Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ⁵Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Istanbul University – Cerrahpasa, Behçet’s Disease Research Center, Istanbul, Turkey, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁶Celgene Corporation, Summit, ⁷Celgene Corporation, Summit, NJ, ⁸Celgene Corporation, Berkeley Heights, NJ, ⁹New York University School of Medicine, New York
Background/Purpose: Behçet’s syndrome is a chronic, multi-system inflammatory disorder characterized by painful, recurrent oral ulcers (OU) that can impair quality of life (QoL). Apremilast (APR),…
Abstract Number: 1865 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Improving Lupus Care Index Documentation in Patients with Childhood-Onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (cSLE)
Fatima Barbar-Smiley¹, Stephanie Lemle ¹, Cagri Yildirim-Toruner ¹, Edward Oberle ¹, Darby McDonald ¹, Vidya Sivaraman ² and Stacy Ardoin ¹, ¹Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, ²Nationwide Children's Hospital and The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) affects both adults and children with an estimated prevalence in children of 8/100,000. More than 1000 deaths related to SLE…
Abstract Number: 1085 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Probiotic Use and Psoriatic Arthritis Disease Activity
Madison Grinnell¹, Kristin Wipfler ², Alexis Ogdie ³ and Kaleb Michaud ⁴, ¹University of Nebraska College of Medicine, OMAHA, NE, ²FORWARD, The National Databank for Rheumatic Diseases, Wichita, KS, ³Department of Medicine and Rheumatology and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
Background/Purpose: Probiotics have been hypothesized to mediate inflammation through gut microbiome modulation, and growing evidence has suggested that our intestinal gut microbiome may play a…
Abstract Number: 1881 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Association of Pain Centralization with DMARD Response in Active RA
Andrew Heisler¹, Jing Song ², Dorothy Dunlop ¹, Alyssa Wohlfahrt ³, Marcy Bolster ⁴, Wendy Marder ⁵, Clifton Bingham ⁶, Daniel Clauw ⁷, Tuhina Neogi ⁸ and Yvonne Lee ⁹, ¹Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ²Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Worthington, OH, ³Brigham and Woman's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁴Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, ⁶Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ⁷Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine and Division of Anesthesia, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁸Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ⁹Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago
Background/Purpose: Despite the availability of potent disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs), a significant percentage of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients do not achieve low disease activity…
Abstract Number: 1156 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Differences in Clinical Outcomes According to the Healthcare Regime in Colombian Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Julian Barahona-Correa¹, Jorge Florez ¹, Mateo Rodriguez ², Karen Ramirez ³, Paul Mendez-Patarroyo ¹, Paola Coral-Alvarado ¹ and Gerardo Quintana-López ¹, ¹Reumavance Group, section of Rheumatology, Fundacion Santa Fe de Bogota University Hospital, Bogota DC, Distrito Capital de Bogota, Colombia, ²School of Medicine, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Distrito Capital de Bogota, Colombia, ³School of Medicine, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota DC, Distrito Capital de Bogota, Colombia
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) generates high impact on patients and healthcare systems. Adequate control of disease activity depends to a large extent on the access…
Abstract Number: 2325 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
High Intensity Interval Training Improves Rheumatoid Arthritis Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Systemic Inflammation in Association with Alterations in Skeletal Muscle Metabolomic Profiles
Brian Andonian¹, David Bartlett ¹, Deborah Muoio ¹, Timothy Koves ¹, Olga Ilkayeva ¹, Andrew Hoselton ¹, Megan Reaves ¹, William Kraus ¹ and Kim Huffman ¹, ¹Duke University, Durham, NC
Background/Purpose: Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are at greater risk for cardiometabolic disease and early death. It is unclear if current anti-inflammatory pharmacotherapies alone are…

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