Abstracts tagged "Elderly"

Abstract Number: 56 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Choline Metabolite Is Associated with Inflammation in Arthritis in the Elderly
francesca cedola¹, Roxana Coras ², Elsa Sanchez-Lopez ³, Lourdes Mateo ⁴, Anders Pedersen ⁵, Anahy Brandy-Garcia ⁴, Águeda Prior-Español ⁴, Brin S rosenthal ⁶, Melania Martínez-Morillo ⁴ and Monica Guma ⁷, ¹University of California San Diego, Rome, Italy, ². Department of Medicine, School of Medicine. University of California, San Diego, ³Department of Pharmacology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, San Diego, ⁴Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain, ⁵University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, ⁶University of California San Diego, san diego, ⁷Department of Medicine, School of Medicine. University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States
Background/Purpose: Elderly-onset RA (EORA) and polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) are common rheumatic disease in the elderly and their pathogenesis are still not completely understood. Perturbations caused…
Abstract Number: 325 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Frailty and Sarcopenia in Inflammatory Rheumatic Disease
Elisa Trujillo¹, Antonio Aznar ², Hiurma Sanchez ¹, Marta Hernandez ¹, Alicia García ³ and Maria del mar Trujillo Martin ⁴, ¹Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, ²Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canarias, Spain, ³Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Santa cruz de Tenerife, ⁴Servicio de Evaluación y Planificación, Fundación Canaria de Investigación Sanitaria (FUNCANIS) Red de Investigación en Servicios de Salud en Enfermedades Crónicas (REDISSEC)., Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Background/Purpose: Sarcopenia, the loss of skeletal muscle mass, is associated with adverse individual physical and metabolic changes contributing to morbidity and mortality. Sarcopenia is a…
Abstract Number: 1345 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Are There Differences in Efficacy and Safety of Biological Disease-modifying Antirheumatic Drugs Between Elderly-onset and Young-onset Rheumatoid Arthritis?
Sadao Jinno¹, Akira Onishi ², Kengo Akashi ², Motomu Hashimoto ³, Wataru Yamamoto ³, Koichi Murata ³, Tohru Takeuchi ⁴, Takuya Kotani ⁴, Yuichi Maeda ⁵, Kosuke Ebina ⁶, Yonsu Son ⁷, Hideki Amuro ⁷, Ryota Hara ⁸, Masanori Katayama ⁹, Jun Saegusa ² and Akio Morinobu ², ¹Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan, ²Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan, ³Department of Advanced Medicine for Rheumatic Diseases, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan, ⁴Department of Internal Medicine IV, Osaka Medical College, Osaka, Japan, ⁵Department of Respiratory Medicine and Clinical Immunology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan, ⁶Department of Musculoskeletal Regenerative Medicine, Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan, ⁷First Department of Internal Medicine, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan, ⁸The Center for Rheumatic Disease, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Nara Medical University, Nara, Japan, ⁹Department of Rheumatology, Osaka Red Cross Hospital, Osaka, Japan
Background/Purpose: To compare efficacy and safety of biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (bDMARDs) between elderly-onset rheumatoid arthritis (EORA) and young-onset rheumatoid arthritis (YORA) patients. Methods: Patients with…
Abstract Number: 2165 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Stakeholder Feedback on Novel Behavioral Intervention Targeting Comorbid Chronic Back Pain and Depression in Older Adults
Ailing Yang¹, Wei Yuet ², LaDonna Saxon ³, James LePage ³, Liana Fraenkel ⁴, Manney Reid ⁵ and Una Makris ⁶, ¹UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, ²UNT Health Science Center, Fort Worth, ³Dallas VA Medical Center and UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, ⁴Yale School of Medicine and VA Connecticut Healthcare System, New Haven, ⁵Weill Cornell Medicine, New York City, ⁶UT Southwestern Medical Center and Dallas VA Medical Center, Dallas
Background/Purpose: Chronic low back pain (cLBP) is the 2nd most common reason for physician visits; annual related costs exceed $100 billion and are expected to…
Abstract Number: 2170 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Risk Factors for Poor Outcomes After Hip Fracture Patients in the Robust Elderly: Are Patient Reported Outcomes Important?
Lisa Mandl¹, Dina Sheira ², Marianna Frey ³, Jackie Finik ², Kirsten Grueter ³ and Joseph Lane ⁴, ¹Hospital for Special Surgery/Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, New York, NY, ²Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, New York, NY, ³Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, New York, ⁴Hospital for Special Surgery/Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, New York
Background/Purpose: Low energy hip fractures are feared harbingers of morbidity and mortality. However, many older adults are high functioning and cognitively intact at the time…
Abstract Number: 2392 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
The Effectiveness of anti-IL-6 Therapy to Elderly-onset Rheumatoid Arthritis
Takayasu Ando¹, Takeshi Suzuki ², Yutaka Gotou ¹ and Kimito Kawahata ³, ¹Division of Rheumatology and Allergology, Department of Internal Medicine, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan, ²Division of Rheumatology and Allergology, Department of Internal Medicine, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan, ³Rheumatology and Allergology, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Background/Purpose: In daily practice, our rheumatologist has experienced different clinical feature of elderly-onset rheumatoid arthritis (EORA) compared with younger-onset RA (YORA). In EORA patients, serological…
Abstract Number: 417 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Patient Reported Outcomes Pre and Post Intervention in Older Veterans with Chronic Back Pain
Rabih Nayfe¹, Matthieu Chansard², Linda S. Hynan³, Eric M. Mortensen⁴ and Una E. Makris⁵, ¹Department of Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ²Clinical Sciences, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ³Clinical Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ⁴UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ⁵UT Southwestern Medical Center and Dallas VA, Dallas, TX
Background/Purpose: Chronic back pain is the second most common reason for a physician’s visit and results in significant physical and psychosocial consequences in older adults.…
Abstract Number: 555 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Three Year Outcomes of Patients with Elderly-Onset Rheumatoid Arthritis Treated with a Therapeutic Strategy Targeting Low Disease Activity, and Impact of Adverse Events on Physical Function
Takahiko Sugihara¹, Tatsuro Ishizaki², Hiroyuki Baba³, Takumi Matsumoto³, Shoko Iga¹, Takeshi Kusuda¹, Marina Tsuchida¹, Mari Kamiya³, Yoji Komiya³, Fumio Hirano⁴, Tadashi Hosoya³, Nobuyuki Miyasaka³ and Masayoshi Harigai⁵, ¹Department of Medicine and Rheumatology, Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, ²Human Care Research Team, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan, ³Department of Medicine and Rheumatology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan, ⁴Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Department of Rheumatology, Tokyo, Japan, ⁵Tokyo Women's Medical University, Division of Epidemiology and Pharmacoepidemiology of Rheumatic Diseases, Institute of Rheumatology, Tokyo, Japan
Background/Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate three year outcomes of patients with elderly-onset RA (EORA) who were treated with a therapeutic strategy…
Abstract Number: 820 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Incidence And Seasonal Variation Of Biopsy-Proven Giant Cell Arteritis – Revisited: A 20-Year Population-Based Study From Sweden
Pavlos Stamatis¹, Carl Turesson², Jan-Åke Nilsson² and Aladdin Mohammad³, ¹Clinical Sciences, Rheumatology Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, ²Rheumatology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Malmö, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden, ³Rheumatology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Background/Purpose: To investigate the incidence rate and seasonal variation of biopsy-proven giant cell arteritis (GCA) in a well-defined population in southern Sweden. Methods: The study…
Abstract Number: 944 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Gout: A Potential Risk Factor for Uveitis in the Older Adults?
Jasvinder A. Singh and John Cleveland, Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: Elevated intraocular levels of these pro-inflammatory cytokines and systemic levels of C-reactive protein are seen in uveitis, which leads to 30,000 new cases of…
Abstract Number: 1133 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Factors for Opioids Use in the Early Treatment Options for the Knee Osteoarthritis Patients
Soo-Kyung Cho¹, Seongmi Choi², Seul Gi Im², Hyoungyoung Kim¹, Sun-Young Jung³, Eun Jin Jang⁴ and Yoon-Kyoung Sung⁵, ¹Rheumatology, Hanyang University Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), ²Statistics, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea, Republic of (South), ³College of Pharmacy, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), ⁴Information Statistics, Andong National University, Andong-si, Korea, Republic of (South), ⁵Hanyang University Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South)
Background/Purpose: Current guidelines for osteoarthritis (OA) treatment recommend a range of nonpharmacological and pharmacological interventions to alleviate pain, improve function and quality of life. Most…
Abstract Number: 1475 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Eicosanoid Mediators of Systemic Inflammation and Arthritis in the Elderly
Roxana Coras^1,2, Rekha Narasimhan¹, Arthur Kavanaugh³, Lourdes Mateo⁴, Oswald Quehenberger⁵, Melania Martinez-Morillo⁶ and Monica Guma^1,2, ¹Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, ²Medicine, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Bellatera, Spain, ³University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA, ⁴Rheumatology, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain, ⁵Pharmacology, Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, ⁶Rheumatology, Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
Background/Purpose: Elderly-onset RA, EORA, which is defined as rheumatoid arthritis (RA) starting at >60 years of age, has received less attention than young-onset RA. Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is…
Abstract Number: 1543 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Efficacy, Safety and Adherence of Biologicbiological Disease-Modifying Anti Rheumatic Drugs, Infliximab, Tocilizumab and Abatacept, in Elderly Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Takuma Tsuzuki Wada¹, Yu Funakubo Asanuma², Mayumi Matsuda³, Hiroaki Yazawa², Yoshinobu Nakao⁴, Noritsune Kozu⁵ and Toshihide Mimura², ¹Department of Rheumatology and Applied Immunology, Faculty of Medicine,, Saitama Medical University, Saitama, Japan, ²Department of Rheumatology and Applied Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Saitama Medical University, Saitama, Japan, ³Department of Rheumatology and Applied Immunology, Saitama Medical University, Saitama, Japan, ⁴Department of Rheumatology, Saga University Hospital, Saga, Japan, ⁵Kozu Orthopedic Clinic, Yachiyo, Japan
Background/Purpose: Elderly patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have declined physical performances and increased various complications. We are concerned about decrease of efficacy and increase of…
Abstract Number: 2176 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Association of Gout with Incident Giant Cell Arteritis in Older Adults
Jasvinder A. Singh and John Cleveland, Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a vasculitis that affects large and medium sized arteries in people 50 years or older. Gout, the most common…
Abstract Number: 2226 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Gout and the Risk of Incident Dementia in the Elderly: A Medicare Claims Study
Jasvinder A. Singh¹ and John Cleveland², ¹Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: The pursuit of a link between gout/hyperuricemia and dementia has led to contradictory results. Most observational studies, including population-based studies, showed that hyperuricemia was…

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