Abstracts tagged "Disease Activity"

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…
Abstract Number: 327 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Patient Global Assessment and Common Composite Disease Activity Measures Vary Minimally When Patients Reflect on Their Arthritis or Their Global Health: Results from the Canadian Early Arthritis Cohort Study
Vivian P. Bykerk¹, Orit Schieir², Marie-France Valois³, Edward C. Keystone⁴, Gilles Boire⁵, Janet E. Pope⁶, Diane Tin⁷, Carol Hitchon⁸, Carter Thorne⁹, Susan J. Bartlett¹⁰ and Boulos Haraoui¹¹, ¹Deptartment of Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ²McGill University, Montreal, ON, Canada, ³McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁴University of Toronto and Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵Rheumatology Division, Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux de l'Estrie - Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke and Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, ⁶Department of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, ⁷The Arthritis Program, Southlake Regional Health Centre, Newmarket, ON, Canada, ⁸University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ⁹University of Toronto, Newmarket, ON, Canada, ¹⁰Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ¹¹Institut de Recherche en Rhumatologie de Montréal (IRRM), Montreal, QC, Canada
Background/Purpose: The patient global assessment (PtGA) is a core domain used in RA composite disease activity (CDA) measures for trials and treat-2-target paradigms. The PtGA…
Abstract Number: 632 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Interpretation of Symptoms Should Take into Account Gender in Psoriatic Arthritis: An Analysis of 451 Patients
Clémence Gorlier¹, Laure Gossec², Deborah Puyraimond-Zemmour¹, Laura C. Coates³, Uta Kiltz⁴, Ying Ying Leung⁵, Penelope Palominos⁶, Juan D. Cañete⁷, Rossana Scrivo⁸, Andra Rodica Balanescu⁹, Emmanuelle Dernis¹⁰, Sandra Tälli¹¹, Adeline Ruyssen-Witrand¹², Martin Soubrier¹³, Sibel Zehra Aydın¹⁴, Lihi Eder¹⁵, Inna Gaydukova¹⁶, Ennio Lubrano¹⁷, Pascal Richette¹⁸, M. Elaine Husni¹⁹, Maarten de Wit²⁰, Josef S. Smolen²¹ and Ana-Maria Orbai²², ¹Sorbonne Université, PARIS, France, ²Rhumatologie, Médecine Sorbonne Université, Pitié-Salpétrière Hospital, Paris, France, ³University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, ⁴Rheumatology, Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet, Herne, and Ruhr University Bochum, Herne, Germany, ⁵Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore, ⁶Rheumatology, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Santa Cecilia, Brazil, ⁷Rheumatology, Hospital Clinic and IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain, ⁸Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy, ⁹Department of Internal Medicine and Rheumatology “Sf. Maria” Hospital, Bucharest, Romania, ¹⁰Service de Rhumatologie, CH du Mans, Le Mans, France, ¹¹East-Tallinn Central Hospital, Department of Rheumatology, Tallinn, Estonia, ¹²Rheumatology, Purpan Hospital, Toulouse III University, Toulouse, France, ¹³Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, CHU Gabriel Montpied, Clermont-Ferrand, France, ¹⁴University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ¹⁵Women's College Research Institute, University of Toronto, Women's College Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹⁶North-western state medical university n.a. II Mechnikov, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, ¹⁷Department of Medicine and Health Sciences Vincenzo Tiberio, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy, ¹⁸Rheumatology, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France, ¹⁹Orthopedic and Rheumatologic Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ²⁰Dept. Medical Humanities, Amsterdam Public Health (APH), VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ²¹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine 3, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ²²Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Background/Purpose: Treatments targets in psoriatic arthritis (PsA) are remission (REM) or Low Disease Activity (LDA) which are usually defined based on objective disease activity but…
Abstract Number: 1458 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Impact of the Joint Presence of Erosions and ACPA on Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity over Time: Results from the Meteor Registry
Sytske Anne Bergstra¹, Maura Couto², Nimmisha Govind³, Arvind Chopra⁴, Karen Salomon-Escoto⁵, Elizabeth Murphy⁶, Tom W.J. Huizinga¹ and Cornelia F. Allaart¹, ¹Department of Rheumatology, LUMC, Leiden, Netherlands, ²Hospital Sao Teotónio, Viseu, Portugal, Viseu, Portugal, ³University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, ⁴Center for Rheumatic Diseases, Pune, India, ⁵University of Massachusetts Medical School, Rheumatology Center, UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA, ⁶University Hospital Wishaw, Scotland, Wishaw, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Despite efforts to predict treatment response, treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients remains mostly a case of trial and error. Previous research, mostly in…
Abstract Number: 1665 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Longitudinal Stratification of Gene Expression Reveals Three SLE Groups of Disease Activity Progression
Daniel Toro¹, Jordi Martorell-Marugán², Daniel Goldman³, Michelle Petri⁴, Pedro Carmona Sanz⁵ and Marta Alarcón-Riquelme^6,7, ¹Bioinformatics and Medical Genomics, Center for Genomics and Oncological Research (GENYO), Pfizer-University of Granada-Andalusian Regional Government, Health Sciences Technology Park, Ganada, Spain, ²Bioinformatics Unit, Center for Genomics and Oncological Research (GENYO), Granada, Spain, ³Medicine (Rheumatology), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁴Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁵Unit of Bioinformatics, Center for Genomics and Oncological Research (GENYO), Pfizer-University of Granada-Andalusian Regional Government, Health Sciences Technology Park, Granada, Spain, ⁶Unit for Chronic Inflammatory Diseases, Institute for Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁷Center for Genomics and Oncological Research (GENYO), Pfizer-University of Granada-Andalusian Regional Government, Health Sciences Technology Park, Granada, Spain
Background/Purpose: The highly heterogeneous clinical presentation of lupus is characterized by the unpredictable appearance of flares of disease activity and important organ damage. Attempts to…
Abstract Number: 1923 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Treating Rheumatoid Arthritis to Target: Is Low Disease Activity Good Enough?
Elena Nikiphorou¹, Sam Norton², Adam Young³, Lewis Carpenter², Josh Dixey⁴, David Walsh⁵ and Patrick Kiely⁶, ¹Academic Rheumatology, Department of Inflammation Biology, King's College London, London, Great Britain, ²Academic Rheumatology, King's College London, London, United Kingdom, ³University of Hertfordshire, Hertford, United Kingdom, ⁴Rheumatology, The Royal Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom, ⁵Academic Rheumatology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, Great Britain, ⁶Rheumatology Dept, St Georges Hospital, London, Great Britain
Treating Rheumatoid Arthritis To Target: Is Low Disease Activity Good Enough? Background/Purpose: It is now widely recognised that treat-to-target (T2T) principles in rheumatoid arthritis (RA)…
Abstract Number: 2484 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Effect of Biologic Agents on Synovial Tissues from Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Ayako Kubota¹, Toru Suguro¹, Arata Nakajima², Masato Sonobe³ and Kazuaki Tsuchiya¹, ¹Toho University Omori Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan, ²Orthopaedics, Toho University Sakura Medical Center, Sakura-city, Chiba, Japan, ³Toho University Sakura Medical Center, Chiba, Japan
Background/Purpose: Multiple studies addressing the effects of biologics on the synovial tissue in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients have been reported. There are, however, few studies…
Abstract Number: 2785 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Efficacy and Safety of Ustekinumab, an Interleukin-12/23 Inhibitor, in Patients with Active Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: 1-Year Results of a Phase 2, Randomized Placebo-Controlled, Crossover Study
Ronald van Vollenhoven¹, Bevra H Hahn², George C Tsokos³, Carrie Wagner⁴, Peter Lipsky⁵, Benjamin Hsu⁴, Marc Chevrier⁴, Robert Gordon⁴, Kim Hung Lo⁴, Manon Triebel⁶, Kaiyin Fei⁴ and Shawn Rose⁴, ¹Amsterdam Rheumatology and Immunology Center ARC, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ²University of California, Los Angeles, CA, ³Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁴Janssen Research & Development, LLC, Spring House, PA, ⁵AMPEL BioSolutions and RILITE Research Institute, Charlottesville, VA, ⁶Janssen Biologics Europe, Leiden, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Both the IL-12 and IL-23 pathways have been linked to SLE pathogenesis. The anti-IL-12/23 p40 monoclonal antibody ustekinumab (UST), which is approved for psoriasis,…
Abstract Number: 2986 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Impact of Exercise and Clinical Factors on Perceived Cognitive Function in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: Results from a Prospective Cohort Study
Nancy A. Shadick¹, Christine K Iannaccone², Patricia Katz³, Gabriela L. Maica⁴, Jonathan Coblyn⁵, Michael E Weinblatt⁶ and Jing Cui⁷, ¹Rheumatology Immunology & Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, ³University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁴Department of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁵Department of Rheumatology, Brigham & Womens Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁶Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁷Division of Medicine and Rheumatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Modifiable lifestyle factors such as inactivity and obesity contribute to cognitive decline in the general population, but little is known about how these factors…

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