Abstracts tagged "DMARDs and cardiovascular disease"

Abstract Number: 1911 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drug Use and the Risk of Incident Hyperlipidemia in Patients with Early Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Rishi Desai¹, Wesley Eddings², Katherine Liao³, DH Solomon⁴ and Seoyoung C. Kim⁵, ¹PharmacoEpidemiology & PharmacoEconomics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁴Rheumatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁵Div. of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Div. of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) increases patients' risk of developing cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Hyperlipidemia is an important CVD risk factor in the general population. The objective…