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Abstracts tagged "Environmental factors"

  • Abstract Number: 0965 • ACR Convergence 2020

    Repetitive Inhalant Lipopolysaccharide Exposure in the Setting of Arthritis Induction Potentiates Pro-Fibrotic Inflammatory Lung Disease in Mice

    Madison Wolfe1, Ted Mikuls1, Geoffrey Thiele1, Amy Nelson1, Michael Duryee1, Rohit Gaurav1, Bryant England1, Debra Romberger1 and Jill Poole1, 1University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE

    Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with several lung diseases. Various airborne exposures have been implicated as RA disease risk factors including cigarette smoke and…
  • Abstract Number: 1008 • ACR Convergence 2020

    Assessing Improved Risk Prediction of Seropositive Rheumatoid Arthritis by Environmental, Genetic, and Preclinical Plasma Metabolite Factors

    Karen Costenbader1, Jeffrey Sparks2, Elizabeth Karlson3, Kazuki Yoshida4, Jing Cui5, Susan Malspeis6 and Lilia Bouzit7, 1Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 2Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation, and Immunity; Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 3Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, 4Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 5Brigham Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, 6Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, 7Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA

    Background/Purpose: Recent research has advanced the understanding of associations between environmental, genetic, and metabolic factors and rheumatoid arthritis (RA), introducing potential to improve risk prediction.…
  • Abstract Number: 1019 • ACR Convergence 2020

    Outdoor Air Pollution and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

    George Stojan1, Anton Kvit2, Frank Curriero2 and Michelle Petri3, 1Johns Hopkins University, BALTIMORE, MD, 2Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, 3Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore

    Background/Purpose: Understanding the role of environmental exposures in the development of SLE and their association with SLE activity may help identify modifiable risk factors and…
  • Abstract Number: 1037 • ACR Convergence 2020

    Relationship Between Air Quality and Sarcoidosis Inflammatory Activity

    Aaron Case1, Dustin Fraidenburg2, Israel Rubinstein2 and Christian Ascoli2, 1University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2Division of Pulmonary,Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy; Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA, Chicago, IL

    Background/Purpose: African Americans [AA] and minorities in the lower socioeconomic strata of Chicago are disproportionately affected by pulmonary sarcoidosis, and regularly exposed to poorer air…
  • Abstract Number: 187 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting

    Epidemiology of JIA-Associated Uveitis: Environmental Factors and Disease Characteristics of a JIA-Associated Uveitis Cohort

    Theresa Hennard 1, Najima Mwase 2, Amy Cassedy 3, Joseph McDonald 4, Virginia Utz 5 and Sheila Angeles-Han6, 1Division of Rheumatology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2Division of Rheumatology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 3Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, 4Division of Rheumatology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, 5Division of Ophthalmology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 6Division of Rheumatology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cinicinnati

    Background/Purpose: JIA-associated uveitis (JIA-U) is the most prevalent extra-articular manifestation of JIA and the most common type of uveitis in children. To date, environmental factors…
  • Abstract Number: 693 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting

    Hair Chemicals and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Case-Control Study

    Jessica English1, Trevor Faith 2, Dulaney Wilson 1 and Diane Kamen 3, 1Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, 2Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, 3Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA., Charleston, SC

    Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a complex chronic autoimmune disease of unknown etiology. Previous studies of beauty products as potential triggers of SLE development…
  • Abstract Number: 1106 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting

    Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Sjögren’s Syndrome in the Agricultural Health Study: Lower Risk Associated with Childhood Farm Residence and Raising Livestock

    Christine Parks1, Stuart Long 2, Laura Beane-Freeman 3, Hofmann Jonathan 3 and Sandler Dale 1, 1National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, 2Westat, Research Triangle Park, NC, 3National Cancer Institute, Bethesda

    Background/Purpose: Prior research suggests that growing up on a farm and contact with livestock may confer protection against developing systemic autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid…
  • Abstract Number: 2084 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting

    Why so Fast? A Focus on Reasons for an Increase in Arthritis-Attributable Activity Limitation Trends, 2002-2017

    Kristina Theis1, Michael Boring 2 and Ross Wilkie 3, 1Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, 2Johnson Consulting dba Cutting Edge Technologies and Solutions, Atlanta, 3Keele University, Keele, United Kingdom

    Background/Purpose: “Arthritis-attributable activity limitation” (AAAL) is linked to many potentially modifiable characteristics (e.g., work disability, physical inactivity, obesity). By 2015, prevalence of AAAL among adults…
  • Abstract Number: 201 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Occupational Exposure to Coal and Silica Dust Is Associated with Elevated Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis in Coal Mining Areas of US

    Laura Trupin1, Edward H. Yelin2, Gabriela Schmajuk3 and Paul Blanc4, 1University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 2Medicine/Rheumatology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 3San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, 4Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

    Background/Purpose:  Exposure to inhaled mineral dust, particularly silica, has been associated with increased risk of RA and other autoimmune diseases. Coal mining leads to silica…
  • Abstract Number: 482 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    The Association of Short-Term Ultraviolet Radiation Exposure and Calcinosis in Juvenile Dermatomyositis in the Childhood Arthritis & Rheumatology Research Alliance Registry

    Jessica Neely1, Craig S. Long2, Hugh Sturrock3 and Susan Kim4, 1Pediatric Rheumatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 2National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/Climate Prediction Center, College Park, MD, 3Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 4Pediatric Rheumatology, University of California, San francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA

    Background/Purpose: JDM is an autoimmune systemic vasculopathy characterized by myositis and skin rash.  Some myositis specific antibodies (MSAs) are associated with clinical manifestations in JDM,…
  • Abstract Number: 1087 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Association between Cigarette Smoking and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus – a Bayesian Multivariate Meta-Analysis of Case-Control and Cohort Studies

    Monica Hui Yan Chua1, Irene Ai Ting Ng1, Mike Wai-Leung Cheung2 and Anselm Mak3, 1Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, 2Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, 3Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Background/Purpose: The association between cigarette smoking and the occurrence of SLE has been studied over the past two decades but results are conflicting. The global…
  • Abstract Number: 69 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Possible Association of Early Inflammatory Arthritis with Viral Outbreaks Such As Influenza: Time Series Analysis of the Canadian Early Inflammatory Arthritis Cohort

    Fatima Kudaeva1, Mark Speechley2, Neil Klar2, Orit Schieir3, Susan J. Bartlett4, Louis Bessette5, Gilles Boire6, Glen Hazlewood7, Carol A Hitchon8, Edward C. Keystone9, Diane Tin10, Carter Thorne11, Vivian P. Bykerk12 and Janet E. Pope13, 1Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, ON, Canada, 2Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, ON, Canada, 3Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, 4Department of Medicine, Division of ClinEpi, Rheumatology, Respirology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, 5Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada, 6Rheumatology 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, 7Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, 8University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, 9University of Toronto and Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, 10The Arthritis Program, Southlake Regional Health Centre, Newmarket, ON, Canada, 11University of Toronto, Newmarket, ON, Canada, 12Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, 13Department of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

      Background/Purpose: Disease clustering suggests a possible environmental cause. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease that may be triggered by environmental factors such as viruses.…
  • Abstract Number: 89 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Anti-Nuclear Antibodies (ANA) and Air Pollution: Ultrafine Particles and Ozone

    Sasha Bernatsky1, Shouao Wang2, May Y Choi3, Scott Weichenthal4, Marianne Hatzopoulou5, Marvin J. Fritzler6 and Audrey Smargiassi7, 1Divisions of Rheumatology and Clinical Epidemiology, The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada, 2Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada, 3Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, 4Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, 5Civil and Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, 6Department of Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, 7Public Health, Université de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Background/Purpose: Previous studies have suggested links between air pollution (particularly PM2.5) and serum antibodies related to rheumatic diseases. No one has yet examined anti-nuclear antibody…
  • Abstract Number: 119 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Occupational Exposure to Asbestos and Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis

    Anna Ilar1, Per Gustavsson1, Pernilla Wiebert1, Camilla Bengtsson1, Lars Klareskog2 and Lars Alfredsson1, 1The Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, 2Rheumatology unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

    Background/Purpose: Due to the known association between silica dust and rheumatoid arthritis (RA), we wanted to study the association between RA and another silicate mineral;…
  • Abstract Number: 126 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Smoking Is Causally Associated with Disease Activity in Rheumatoid Arthritis

    Milena Gianfrancesco1, Laura Trupin2, Stephen Shiboski3, Mark van der Laan4, Jonathan Graf5, John B. Imboden Jr.6, Jinoos Yazdany2 and Gabriela Schmajuk7, 1Medicine/Rheumatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 2Medicine/Rheumatology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 3Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 4University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 5Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 6Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 7San Francisco VA Medical Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

    Background/Purpose: The association between smoking and risk of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has been well documented; however, the relationship between smoking and RA disease activity is…
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