Abstracts tagged "Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs (Dmards)"

Abstract Number: 1316 • ACR Convergence 2021
Vitamin D Deficiency and Disease Activity in Patients with Spondyloarthritis
Maria Rato¹, Filipe Pinheiro¹, Salomé Garcia¹, Bruno Fernandes², Ana Martins¹, Daniela Oliveira¹, Frederico Martins³, Diogo Fonseca⁴, Alexandra Bernardo¹, Miguel Bernardes¹ and Lúcia Costa¹, ¹Rheumatology Department, Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João EPE, Porto, Portugal, ²Rheumatology Department, Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João EPE, Braga, Portugal, ³Rheumatology Department, Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Algarve EPE, Algarve, Portugal, ⁴Rheumatology Department, Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia/Espinho, EPE, Gaia, Portugal
Background/Purpose: There are increasing data about vitamin D immunomodulatory potential in different rheumatologic disorders. Deficiency of vitamin D is frequent in patients with spondyloarthritis (SpA)…
Abstract Number: 1677 • ACR Convergence 2021
Effects of Biological-DMARDs on the Serum Low-density Lipoprotein (LDL) / High-density Lipoprotein (HDL) – Cholesterol Ratio in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Yusuke Miwa¹ and Yuko Mitamura², ¹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Showa University, Tokyo, Japan, ²Department of Nursing, Showa University School of Nursing and Rehabilitation Sciences, Shinagawa-ku, Japan
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and dyslipidemia are associated with inflammation. Although the low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) is normal range, the high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) is…
Abstract Number: 1939 • ACR Convergence 2021
Risk of Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients Treated with Tofacitinib: First Results from the Safety of TofAcitinib in Routine Care Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (STAR-RA) Study
Farzin Khosrow-Khavar, Seoyoung Kim, Hemin Lee, Su Been Lee and Rishi Desai, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Recent reports from a post-marketing safety trial, “ORAL Surveillance”, indicated an increased risk of cardiovascular (CV) outcomes in RA patients treated with tofacitinib. Thus,…
Abstract Number: 0147 • ACR Convergence 2021
A Qualitative Analysis of Methotrexate Self-Injection Education Videos on YouTube: An Update
Amy Semaka, Hillary Wilson and Steven Katz, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Background/Purpose: Patients are turning to the Internet for guidance and information at an increasing rate, requiring clinicians to be aware of the constantly changing resources…
Abstract Number: 0741 • ACR Convergence 2021
Assessing the Relationship of Patient Global Assessment of Disease Activity and Health Related Quality of Life by SF-36 with Other Patient-Reported Outcomes in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Post Hoc Analyses of Data from Phase 3 Trials of Baricitinib
Vibeke Strand¹, Anthony Sebba², Savannah Scardo³, Amanda Quebe⁴, Liliana Zaremba-Pechmann⁵ and Peter C Taylor⁶, ¹Stanford University, Portola Valley, CA, ²Division of Rheumatology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, ³Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN, ⁴Eli Lilly and Company, Indanapolis, IN, ⁵HaaPACS, Schriesheim, Germany, ⁶University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Improvements in patient-reported outcomes (PROs) were demonstrated in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of baricitinib (BARI), an oral Janus kinase (JAK)1/JAK2 inhibitor, for the treatment…
Abstract Number: 0960 • ACR Convergence 2021
The Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance Start Time Optimization of Biologic Therapy in Polyarticular JIA (STOP-JIA) Study: 24-Month Outcomes
Yukiko Kimura¹, Sarah Ringold², George Tomlinson³, Laura Schanberg⁴, Anne Dennos⁵, Mary Ellen Riordan⁶, Vincent Del Gaizo⁷, Katherine Murphy⁸, Pamela Weiss⁹, Brian Feldman¹⁰, Marc Natter¹¹ and The STOP-JIA CARRA Registry Investigators¹², ¹Hackensack University Medical Center, New York, NY, ²Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, ³University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, ⁵Duke University, Durham, NC, ⁶Hackensack University Medical Center, Westwood, NJ, ⁷Childhood Arthritis & Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA), Whitehouse Station, NJ, ⁸Childhood Arthritis & Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA), New Orleans, LA, ⁹Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, ¹⁰The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹¹Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, ¹²Childhood Arthritis & Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA), Milwaukee, WS
Background/Purpose: The CARRA STOP-JIA study compared the effectiveness of the CARRA Consensus Treatment Plans (CTPs) in achieving clinical inactive disease (CID) in untreated polyarticular JIA…
Abstract Number: 1348 • ACR Convergence 2021
Predictors for Achievement of Low Disease Activity at Week 56 in Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis Who Received Upadacitinib 15 Mg Once Daily: Pooled Analysis of Two Phase 3 Studies
Daniel Aletaha¹, Philip Mease², Ralph Lippe³, Frank Behrens⁴, Derek Haaland⁵, Penélope Palominos⁶, Apinya Lertratanakul⁷, Michael Lane⁸, Kevin Douglas⁷, Peter Nash⁹ and Arthur Kavanaugh¹⁰, ¹Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ²Swedish Medical Center/Providence St. Joseph Health and University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ³AbbVie Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, Germany, ⁴Rheumatology & Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP, Fraunhofer Cluster Immune-Mediated Diseases (CIMD), Fraunhofer Cluster Immune-Mediated Diseases (CIMD), Frankfurt/Main, Germany, ⁵McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario and The Waterside Clinic, Oro Medonte, ON, Canada, ⁶Division of Rheumatology, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil, ⁷AbbVie Inc., North Chicago, IL, ⁸AbbVie Inc., North Chicago, ⁹Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, ¹⁰Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Background/Purpose: Upadacitinib (UPA) 15 mg once daily (QD) has demonstrated efficacy and safety in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) for up to 56 weeks in…
Abstract Number: 1680 • ACR Convergence 2021
Impact of Race on the Efficacy and Safety of Tofacitinib in Patients with RA: A Post Hoc Analysis of Phase 2, 3, and 3b/4 Clinical Trials
Grace Wright¹, Eduardo Mysler², Yi-Hsing Chen³, Cassandra Kinch⁴, Arne Yndestad⁵, Kenneth Kwok⁶, Mary Jane Cadatal⁷, Rebecca Germino⁸ and Alexis Ogdie⁹, ¹Grace C Wright MD PC, and Association of Women in Rheumatology, New York, NY, ²Organización Médica de Investigación, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ³Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan (Republic of China), ⁴Pfizer Canada ULC, Kirkland, QC, Canada, ⁵Pfizer Inc, Oslo, Norway, ⁶Pfizer Inc, New York, NY, ⁷Pfizer Inc, Manila, Philippines, ⁸Pfizer Inc, Groton, CT, ⁹Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Background/Purpose: While racial disparities in clinical outcomes for RA patients (pts) receiving bDMARDs or csDMARDs have been described,1 there remains a paucity of data on…
Abstract Number: 1940 • ACR Convergence 2021
Malignancies in Patients Aged ≥ 50 Years with RA and ≥ 1 Additional Cardiovascular Risk Factor: Results from a Phase 3b/4 Randomized Safety Study of Tofacitinib vs TNF Inhibitors
Jeffrey Curtis¹, Kunihiro Yamaoka², Yi-Hsing Chen³, Levent M Gunay⁴, Naonobu Sugiyama⁵, Carol A Connell⁶, Cunshan Wang⁶, Joseph Wu⁶, Sujatha Menon⁶, Ivana Vranic⁷ and Juan J Gomez-Reino⁸, ¹Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²School of Medicine, Department of Rheumatology and Infectious Diseases, Kitasato University, Sagamihara, Japan, ³Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan (Republic of China), ⁴Pfizer Inc, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁵Pfizer Japan Inc, Tokyo, Japan, ⁶Pfizer Inc, Groton, CT, ⁷Pfizer Inc, Tadworth, Surrey, United Kingdom, ⁸Hospital Clínico Universitario, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Background/Purpose: ORAL Surveillance (NCT02092467) was a post-authorization safety study to assess the relative risk of tofacitinib vs TNF inhibitors (TNFi), based on observed increases in…
Abstract Number: 0200 • ACR Convergence 2021
In Undifferentiated Arthritis, DMARD-treatment Intensified During the Last Decennia but Did Not Result in Improved Outcomes
Marloes Verstappen, Xanthe Matthijssen and Annette H.M van der Helm-van Mil, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: International guidelines stress timely DMARD-initiation in early arthritis, also when classification-criteria are not yet fulfilled. Consequently, undifferentiated arthritis (UA)-patients are increasingly treated despite placebo-controlled…
Abstract Number: 0790 • ACR Convergence 2021
Unraveling Heterogeneity Within ACPA-negative Rheumatoid Arthritis; The Subgroup of Patients with a Strong Clinical and Serological Response to Initiation of DMARD-treatment Favor Disease Resolution
Marloes Verstappen¹, Hanna van Steenbergen², Pascal de Jong³ and Annette H.M van der Helm-van Mil¹, ¹Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ²Leiden Univeristy Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ³Erasmus MC, Hendrik Ido Ambacht, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a heterogeneous disease, especially ACPA-negative-RA. This is reflected by differences in long-term outcomes, ranging from refractory RA to sustained-DMARD-free-remission(SDFR; sustained…
Abstract Number: 0963 • ACR Convergence 2021
Immunogenicity of COVID-19 Vaccines in Patients with Autoimmune and Inflammatory Rheumatic Diseases (AIIRDs)
Gordon Lam¹, Andrew Laster², Sarah McCarter², Heather Gladue³, Ahmad Kashif², Erin Siceloff², Victoria Lackey³, Cheryl Robertson³, Ashley Toci² and Leonard Calabrese⁴, ¹Arthritis and Osteoporosis Consultants of the Carolinas, Cornelius, NC, ²Arthritis and Osteoporosis Consultants of the Carolinas, Charlotte, NC, ³Arthritis & Osteoporosis Consultants of the Carolinas, Charlotte, NC, ⁴Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Background/Purpose: AIIRD patients may have a blunted immune response to the COVID-19 vaccines, but this is largely uncharacterized as these individuals were not included in…
Abstract Number: 1349 • ACR Convergence 2021
Joint-specific Responses to Tofacitinib and Adalimumab in Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis: Post Hoc Analysis of a Phase 3 Study
Adrian Ciurea¹, Tim Killeen², Raphael Micheroli¹, Norina N Gassman², Hyejin Jo³, Kenneth Kwok⁴, Elizabeth Kudlacz⁴, Oliver Distler¹, Caroline Ospelt⁵ and Mojca Frank-Bertoncelj¹, ¹Center of Experimental Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich/University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, ²Pfizer AG, Zurich, Switzerland, ³Pfizer Inc, Groton, CT, ⁴Pfizer Inc, New York, NY, ⁵Center of Experimental Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Background/Purpose: Peripheral joint involvement in PsA varies. In RA, varied joint involvement may reflect site-specific differences in stromal cell transcriptome, including Janus kinase-signal transducer and…
Abstract Number: 1684 • ACR Convergence 2021
Incidence of Infections in Patients Aged ≥ 50 Years with RA and ≥ 1 Additional Cardiovascular Risk Factor: Results from a Phase 3b/4 Randomized Safety Study of Tofacitinib vs TNF Inhibitors
Andra R Bălănescu¹, Gustavo Citera², Virginia Pascual-Ramos³, Carol A Connell⁴, David Gold⁵, All-shine Chen⁴, Harry Shi⁶, Andrea B Shapiro⁷, Janet Pope⁸ and Hendrik Schulze-Koops⁹, ¹“Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Department of Internal Medicine and Rheumatology “Sf. Maria” Hospital, Bucharest, Romania, ²Instituto de Rehabilitación Psicofísica, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ³Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico, ⁴Pfizer Inc, Groton, CT, ⁵Pfizer Inc, Montréal, QC, Canada, ⁶Pfizer Inc, Collegeville, PA, ⁷Pfizer Inc, Peapack, NJ, ⁸University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, ⁹Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine IV, University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Background/Purpose: Previous clinical trial and real-world data suggest that risk of serious infection events (SIEs) and opportunistic infections (OIs) is similar with tofacitinib 5 mg…
Abstract Number: 1941 • ACR Convergence 2021
The Risk of Venous Thromboembolic Events in Patients with RA Aged ≥ 50 Years with ≥ 1 Cardiovascular Risk Factor: Results from a Phase 3b/4 Randomized Safety Study of Tofacitinib vs TNF Inhibitors
Christina Charles-Schoeman¹, Roy Fleischmann², Eduardo Mysler³, Maria Greenwald⁴, Cunshan Wang⁵, All-shine Chen⁵, Carol A Connell⁵, John C Woolcott⁶, Sujatha Menon⁵, Yan Chen⁷, Kristen Lee⁷ and Zoltan Szekanecz⁸, ¹Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ²Metroplex Clinical Research Center and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ³Organización Médica de Investigación, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ⁴Desert Medical Advances, Palm Desert, CA, ⁵Pfizer Inc, Groton, CT, ⁶Pfizer Inc, Collegeville, PA, ⁷Pfizer Inc, New York, NY, ⁸Division of Rheumatology, University of Debrecen, Faculty of Medicine, Debrecen, Hungary
Background/Purpose: ORAL Surveillance (NCT02092467) was a randomized, open-label, non-inferiority, Phase 3b/4 study that assessed the relative risk of major adverse cardiovascular (CV) events (MACE) and…

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