Abstracts tagged "Epidemiologic methods"

Abstract Number: 895 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Relative Risk Of Aortic Aneurysm In Patients With Giant Cell Arteritis Compared With The General Population
Joanna Robson¹, Amit Kiran², Joseph Maskell³, Andrew Hutchings⁴, Nigel K. Arden⁵, Bhaskar Dasgupta⁶, William Hamilton⁷, Akan Emin⁸, David Culliford³ and Raashid A. Luqmani², ¹Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, Botnar Research Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, ²Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, ³Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, ⁴Department of Health Services Research and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, ⁵NDORMS; MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, Oxford NIHR Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, ⁶Rheumatology, Southend University Hospital, Westcliff-on-sea, United Kingdom, ⁷Primary Care Diagnostics, University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, United Kingdom, ⁸Clinical Effectiveness Unit, The Royal College of Surgeons of England, London, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: To evaluate the risk of aortic aneurysm in patients with giant cell arteritis (GCA) when compared with age, gender and location matched controls from…
Abstract Number: 1751 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Ethnicity-Related Differences In Behçet’s Disease In a French Multiethnic Country
David Saadoun¹, Mathieu Resche Rigon², Bertrand Wechsler³, Du Le Thi Huong⁴, Jean-Charles Piette¹ and Patrice Cacoub⁵, ¹Groupe Hospitalier Pitié Salpétrière, Service de Médecine Interne, DHU i2B, Paris, France, ²Department of Internal Medicine and Laboratory I3 “Immunology, Immunopathology, Immunotherapy”, UMR CNRS 7211, INSERM U959, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpetrière, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6, Paris, France, Paris, France, ³Department of Internal Medicine 2. Referal center for SLE/APS, CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France, ⁴Internal Medicine, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpétrière, Paris, France, ⁵Internal Medicine, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Hopital Pitié-Salpétrière, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: It has been suggested that Behçet’s disease (BD) varies in its phenotypic expression in different ethnies and in different countries indicating that both environmental…
Abstract Number: 804 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Tumour Necrosis Factor Inhibitors and The Risk Of Acute Coronary Syndrome In Rheumatoid Arthritis – a National Cohort Study
Lotta Ljung^1,2, Johan Askling³, Solbritt M. Rantapää-Dahlqvist⁴, Lennart T.H. Jacobsson⁵ and The ARTIS Study Group⁶, ¹Clinical epidemiology unit, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ²Department for Public Health and Clinical Medicine/Rheumatology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, ³Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁴Department for Public Health and Clinical Medicine/ Rheumatology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, ⁵Department of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, Institute of Medicine, The Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, ⁶Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Background/Purpose: The high risk of ischemic heart disease (IHD) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has been linked to inflammation and disease severity. Treatment with…
Abstract Number: 1756 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Trends In Incidence and Mortality In Rheumatoid Arthritis and Systemic Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases In Quebec, Canada: A Population-Based Study
Sonia Jean¹, Philippe Gamache², Marie Hudson³, Louis Bessette⁴, Paul R. Fortin⁵, Gilles Boire⁶ and Sasha Bernatsky⁷, ¹Chronic disease surveillence division, National Institute of public health of Quebec, Quebec, QC, Canada, ²Chronic disease surveillance division, National institute of public health of Quebec, Quebec, QC, Canada, ³Rheumatology, Lady David Institute for Medical Research and Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁴Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec, pavillon CHUL, Sainte-Foy, QC, Canada, ⁵Medicine, Centre de Recherche du Chu de Québec et Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada, ⁶Rheumatology Division, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, ⁷Clinical Epidemiology, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Ctre, Montreal, QC, Canada
Background/Purpose: Health administrative data (HAD) are a potentially efficient to conduct population-based research and are increasingly used to develop chronic disease surveillance indicators. Examining trends…
Abstract Number: 805 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Good Response On Tumour Necrosis Factor Inhibitors Are Associated With a Decreased Risk Of Acute Coronary Syndromes In Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis
Lotta Ljung^1,2, Lennart T.H. Jacobsson³, Solbritt M. Rantapää-Dahlqvist⁴, Johan Askling⁵ and The ARTIS Study Group⁶, ¹Clinical epidemiology unit, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ²Department for Public Health and Clinical Medicine/Rheumatology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, ³Department of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, Institute of Medicine, The Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, ⁴Department for Public Health and Clinical Medicine/ Rheumatology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, ⁵Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁶Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Background/Purpose: Inflammatory activity, as well as traditional cardiovascular risk factors, have been suggested to underlie the increased risk of coronary disease in patients with rheumatoid…
Abstract Number: 1715 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Detection Of Enthesitis In Children With Enthesitis-Related Arthritis: Dolorimeter Examination Compared To Ultrasonography
Pamela F. Weiss¹, Nancy Chauvin², Andrew J. Klink³, Russell A. Localio⁴, Chris Feudtner⁵, Diego Jaramillo², Robert A. Colbert⁶, David D. Sherry⁷ and Ron Keren³, ¹Rheumatology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, ²Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PHILADELPHIA, PA, ³Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, ⁵Division of General Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; University of Pennsylvania Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Philadelphia, PA, ⁶NIAMS/NIH, Bethesda, MD, ⁷Pediatric Rheumatology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Background/Purpose: To evaluate the distribution of enthesitis and accuracy of physical examination (PE) for the detection of enthesitis in children, using ultrasound with power Doppler…
Abstract Number: 782 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Rates Of Malignancies In Patients From 5 Rheumatoid Arthritis Registries Across The World
Johan Askling¹, Niklas Berglind², Stefan Franzén², Thomas Frisell³, Christopher Garwood⁴, Jeffrey D. Greenberg⁵, Meilien Ho⁶, Marie Holmqvist¹, Laura Horne⁷, Kathy Lampl⁸, Kaleb Michaud⁹, Fredrik Nyberg¹⁰, Dimitrios A. Pappas¹¹, George Reed¹², Eiichi Tanaka¹³, Trung Tran¹⁴, Suzanne Verstappen⁴, Hisashi Yamanaka¹⁵ and Deborah Symmons⁴, ¹Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ²AstraZeneca R&D Mölndal, Mölndal, Sweden, ³Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Dept of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁴Arthritis Research UK Epidemiology Unit, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases, New York, NY, ⁶AstraZeneca R&D Alderley Park, Macclesfield, United Kingdom, ⁷AstraZeneca, Wilmington, DE, ⁸AstraZeneca R&D Wilmington, Wilmington, DE, ⁹University of Nebraska Medical Center and National Data Bank, Omaha, NE, ¹⁰AstraZeneca R&D, Mölndal, Sweden, ¹¹Columbia University, New York, NY, ¹²University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, ¹³Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan, ¹⁴MedImmune LLC, Gaithersburg, MD, ¹⁵Institute of Rheumatology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
Background/Purpose: The overall incidence of cancer in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is modestly elevated compared with the general population. The extent to which cancer…
Abstract Number: 1351 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
A Comparison Of The Clinical Effectiveness Of Treatment Strategies For Active RA Patients : Using a Prospective Biologic Registry (BIOPSY) and an RA Specific Cohort (KORONA)
Yoon-Kyoung Sung^1,2, Soo-Kyung Cho^1,2, Chan-Bum Choi^3,4, Soyoung Won⁵, So-Young Bang⁶, Hoon-Suk Cha⁷, Jung-Yoon Choe⁸, Won Tae Chung⁹, Seung-Jae Hong¹⁰, Jae-Bum Jun⁴, Hyoun Ah Kim¹¹, Jinseok Kim¹², Seong-Kyu Kim⁸, Tae-Hwan Kim⁴, Hye-Soon Lee¹³, Jaejoon Lee⁷, Jisoo Lee¹⁴, Shin-Seok Lee¹⁵, Sung Won Lee¹⁶, Yeon-Ah Lee¹⁰, Seong-Su Nah¹⁷, Chang-Hee Suh¹⁸, Dae-Hyun Yoo⁴, Bo Young Yoon¹⁹ and Sang-Cheol Bae^1,2, ¹Department of Rheumatology, Hanyang University Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Seoul, South Korea, ²Department of Rheumatology, Clinical Research Center for Rheumatoid Arthritis (CRCRA), Seoul, South Korea, ³Department of Rheumatology, Hanyang University Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Clinical Research Center for Rheumatoid Arthritis (CRCRA), Seoul, South Korea, ⁴Rheumatology, Hanyang University Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Seoul, South Korea, ⁵Clinical Research Center for Rheumatoid Arthritis (CRCRA), Seoul, South Korea, ⁶Hanyang University Guri Hospital, Guri, South Korea, ⁷Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea, ⁸Catholic University of Daegu School of Medicine, Daegu, South Korea, ⁹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Dong-A University Hospital, Busan, South Korea, ¹⁰Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea, ¹¹Ajou University Hospital, Suwon, South Korea, ¹²Division of Rheumatology, Internal Medicine, Jeju National University Hospital, Jeju, Korea, South Korea, ¹³Department of Rheumatology, Hanyang University Guri Hospital, Guri, South Korea, ¹⁴Internal Medicine, Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital, Seoul, South Korea, ¹⁵Rheumatology, Chonnam National University Medical School and Hospital, Gwangju, South Korea, ¹⁶Rheumatology, Dong-A University Hospital, Busan, South Korea, ¹⁷Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Cheonan Hospital, Cheonan, South Korea, ¹⁸Department of Rheumatology, Ajou University Hospital, Suwon, South Korea, ¹⁹Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital, Goyang, South Korea
Background/Purpose: The results from RCTs may not be generalizable to clinical practice because of their inclusion and exclusion criteria. Instead, observational cohorts and registries might…
Abstract Number: 303 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Risk Of Cardiovascular Events In Patients With Psoriatic Arthritis, Psoriasis, and Rheumatoid Arthritis: A General Population-Based Cohort Study
Alexis Ogdie¹, Yiding Yu², Kevin Haynes³, Samantha Maliha⁴, Thorvardur Love^5,6, Andrea Troxel⁷, Sean Hennessy⁸, David Margolis⁹, Stephen Kimmel¹⁰, Nehal N. Mehta¹¹, Hyon Choi^12,13 and Joel Gelfand¹⁴, ¹Rheumatology and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁵Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, ⁶Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland, ⁷Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania., Philadelphia, PA, ⁸Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁹Dermatology and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ¹⁰Cardiology and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ¹¹National Heart Lung Blood Institute, Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Division, NHLBI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ¹²Section of Rheumatology and the Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ¹³Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ¹⁴Dermatology and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania., Philadelphia, PA
Risk of Cardiovascular Events in Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis, Psoriasis, and Rheumatoid Arthritis: A general population-based cohort studyBackground/Purpose: Psoriatic arthritis (PsA), psoriasis, and rheumatoid arthritis…
Abstract Number: 1271 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Longitudinal Disease Trajectory Of Juvenile Dermatomyositis
Lily Siok Hoon Lim^1,2, Eleanor Pullenayegum³, Dafna D. Gladman⁴, Earl D. Silverman⁵ and Brian M. Feldman⁶, ¹Pediatric Rheumatology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, University of Toronto, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁶Rheumatology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: 1) To determine the longitudinal disease activity trajectory of an inception cohort of Juvenile Dermatomyositis (JDM) patients, 2) To identify predictor(s) for longitudinal disease…
Abstract Number: 261 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Concordance Of Hip Pain With Radiographic Hip Osteoarthritis In An Urban US Community: The Framingham Osteoarthritis Study
Kyu Chan Kim¹, David T. Felson², Katherine D. Linsenmeyer³, Ali Guermazi⁴, Steven C. Vlad⁵, Mary M. Clancy⁶ and Jingbo Niu⁷, ¹Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, ²Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ³Internal Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, ⁴Boston University, Boston, MA, ⁵Clinical Epidemiology, Boston University, Boston, MA, ⁶School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA, ⁷Clinical Epidemiology Research and Training Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: While it is well known that knee pain and radiographic knee osteoarthritis (OA) are often discordant, little is known of the concordance of hip…
Abstract Number: 1235 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Predictors Of Fracture In Patients With Osteopenia: Data From An Observational Cohort
Kathryn Mitchell¹, Peter Diggle¹ and Marwan Bukhari^1,2, ¹Faculty of Health and Medicine, Lancaster, United Kingdom, ²Department of Rheumatology, Royal Lancaster Infirmary, Lancaster, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: The risk factors for osteoporotic fragility fractures are well documented in the literature and although they are associated with a diagnosis of established osteoporosis…
Abstract Number: 262 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Is There a Role For Non-Mendelian Inheritance In Severe Osteoarthritis Of The Knee
Allen D. Sawitzke¹, Richard Pimentel², Jathine Wong², Helena Martinez³, Marta Herrero³, Josep Verges⁴ and Daniel O. Clegg⁵, ¹Rheumatology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ²University of Utah, Salt Lake, UT, ³Pharmascience Division, Bioiberica S.A., Barcelona, Spain, ⁴Pharmacological Research Unit, Scientific Medical Department, Bioibérica, S.A., Barcelona, Spain, ⁵Rheumatology, George Wahlen VA Medical Center/University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Background/Purpose: Although the etiopathogenesis of osteoarthritis of the knee remains largely unknown, it is clear that genetic risks are contributory. Traditional family, twin, case control…
Abstract Number: 137 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
A Population-Based Survey and Physician Assessment Of The Characteristics and Prevalence Of Fibromyalgia
Edgar H. Adams¹, Shoshana Daniel², Arthi B. Chandran³, Heather McElroy⁴, Caroline Schaefer¹, Rachael Mann⁵, Gergana Zlateva³, Joseph C. Cappelleri⁶, Elizabeth T. Masters⁷, Annlouise R. Assaf⁶, Michael McNett⁸, Stuart L. Silverman⁹, Roland Staud¹⁰ and Philip Mease¹¹, ¹Covance Market Access Services Inc., Gaithersburg, MD, ²Covance Market Access Services Inc., Conshohocken, PA, ³Pfizer Inc., New York, NY, ⁴Covance Market Access Services, Sydney, Australia, ⁵Covance Market Access Services Inc., San Diego, CA, ⁶Pfizer Inc., Groton, CT, ⁷Pfizer Inc, New York, NY, ⁸Aurora Pain Program, Milwaukee, WI, ⁹Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, UCLA Center of Excellence, Los Angeles, CA, ¹⁰Dept Med/Rheum/Clin Immun Div, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ¹¹Director, Rheumatology Research, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: No large-scale, national study estimating fibromyalgia (FM) prevalence in the United States (US) has been conducted involving physician evaluation. The study objective was to…
Abstract Number: 1220 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Rheumatoid Arthritis Characteristics and Fracture Risk: A Population-Based Study
Shreyasee Amin¹, Sherine E. Gabriel², Sara J. Achenbach³, Elizabeth J. Atkinson³, Terry M. Therneau³ and L. Joseph Melton III³, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Health Sciences Research & Div of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ³Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Background/Purpose: Women and men with rheumatoid arthritis [RA] are at increased risk for a fragility fracture [fx]. To help better target those in need of…

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