Abstracts tagged "Epidemiologic methods"

Abstract Number: 198 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Assessing Care Quality in Rheumatology Services
Mark Yates¹, Sam Norton ¹, Alexander MacGregor ², Katie Bechman ³, Sanketh Rampes ³ and James Galloway ⁴, ¹Kings College London, London, ²University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, ³King's College London, London, United Kingdom, ⁴Kings College London, London, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: There is high-quality evidence that prompt diagnosis and treatment have beneficial impact on outcomes in RA. Current guidelines from both North America and Europe…
Abstract Number: 352 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Primary Hyperparathyroidism Is Associated with a Higher Level of Serum Uric Acid: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Ben Ponvilawan ¹, Nipith Charoenngam ¹ and Patompong Ungprasert², ¹Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, ²Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, Bangkok, Thailand
Background/Purpose: Studies have suggested that primary hyperparathyroidism could be a risk factor for hyperuricemia although the results were inconsistent across the studies. This systematic review…
Abstract Number: 821 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Trends in Incidence and Prevalence of Osteoarthritis in the United Kingdom: Findings from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD)
Subhashisa Swain¹, Aliya Sarmanova ², Christian Mallen ³, Chang Fu Kuo ⁴, Carol Coupland ⁵ and Weiya Zhang ⁶, ¹University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England, United Kingdom, ²2. Bristol Medical School, Population Health Sciences, University of Bristol, UK, Bristol, England, United Kingdom, ³Research Institute for Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University, UK, Keele, United Kingdom, ⁴4. Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan (Republic of China), ⁵5. Division of Primary Care, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England, United Kingdom, ⁶1. Academic Rheumatology, Division of Rheumatology, Orthopaedics and Dermatology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Osteoarthritis (OA) is by far the most common arthritis.(1) However, its chronological trend in the United Kingdom (UK) is not known. We aimed to…
Abstract Number: 1143 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Periodontal Disease Is Associated with an Increased Risk of Ankylosing Spondylitis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Patompong Ungprasert¹, Karn Wijarnpreecha² and Wisit Cheungpasitporn³, ¹Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Department of Research and Development, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, ²Internal medicine, Bassett medical center, cooperstown, NY, ³Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical center, Jackson, MS
Periodontal Disease is Associated with an Increased Risk of Ankylosing Spondylitis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysisAbstractBackground/Purpose: The association between periodontal disease and rheumatoid arthritis is…
Abstract Number: 2605 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Drug Retention and Response Rates of TNFi Treatment in 13,170 Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis Treated in Routine Care – Pooled Data from the Eurospa Research Network Collaboration
Cecilie Heegaard Brahe¹, Lykke Midtbøll Ørnbjerg¹, Lennart Jacobsson², Michael J. Nissen³, Eirik K Kristianslund⁴, Maria José Santos⁵, Kari Eklund⁶, Ziga Rotar⁷, Björn Gudbjornsson⁸, Fatos Onen⁹, Catalin Codreanu¹⁰, Ulf Lindström¹¹, Cem Gabay³, Tore Kvien⁴, Anabela Barcelos⁵, Kalle Aaltonen⁶, Matija Tomšič⁷, Thorvardur Love⁸, Gerçek Can⁹, Ruxandra Ionescu¹⁰, Anne Gitte Loft¹, Herman F Mann¹², Karel Pavelka¹², Marleen van de Sande¹³, Irene van der Horst-Bruinsma¹⁴, Juan J. Gomez-Reino¹⁵, Carlos Sánchez-Piedra¹⁶, Gary J Macfarlane¹⁷, Florenzo Iannone¹⁸, Lise Hyldstrup¹, Niels Steen Krogh¹⁹, Mikkel Østergaard¹ and Merete Lund Hetland¹, ¹DANBIO, EuroSpA Research Collaboration Network, Coordinating Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark, ²ARTIS, EuroSpA Research Collaboration Network, Gothenburg, Sweden, ³SCQM, EuroSpA Research Collaboration Network, Geneva, Switzerland, ⁴NOR-DMARD, EuroSpA Research Collaboration Network, Oslo, Norway, ⁵Reuma.pt, EuroSpA Research Collaboration Network, Lisbon, Portugal, ⁶ROB-FIN, EuroSpA Research Collaboration Network, Helsinki, Finland, ⁷biorx.si, EuroSpA Research Collaboration Network, Ljubljana, Slovenia, ⁸ICEBIO, EuroSpA Research Collaboration Network, Reykjavik, Iceland, ⁹TURKBIO, EuroSpA Research Collaboration Network, Izmir, Turkey, ¹⁰RRBR, EuroSpA Research Collaboration Network, Bucharest, Romania, ¹¹ARTIS, EuroSpA Research Collaboration Network, Stockholm, Sweden, ¹²ATTRA, EuroSpA Research Collaboration Network, Prague, Czech Republic, ¹³ARC, EuroSpA Research Collaboration Network, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ¹⁴ARC, EuroSpA Research Collaboration Network, Harleem, Netherlands, ¹⁵BIOBADASER, EuroSpA Research Collaboration Network, Santiago, Spain, ¹⁶BIOBASADER, EuroSpA Research Collaboration Network, Santiago, Spain, ¹⁷BSRBR-AS, EuroSpA Research Collaboration Network, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, ¹⁸GISEA, EuroSpA Research Collaboration Network, Bari, Italy, ¹⁹ZiteLab ApS, Copenhagen, Denmark
Drug retention and response rates of TNFi treatment in 13,170 patients with psoriatic arthritis treated in routine care – pooled data from the EuroSpA Research…
Abstract Number: 1355 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Asymptomatic Hyperuricemia Is Associated with Increased Prevalence of Symptomatic Knee Osteoarthritis: Data from Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
Shudan Wang^1,2, Michael Pillinger³, Svetlana Krasnokutsky Samuels⁴ and Kamil E. Barbour⁵, ¹Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, NYU School Medicine, New York City, NY, ²Medicine/Rheumatology, VA Medical Center- Manhattan, New York, NY, ³Medicine/Rheumatology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, ⁴NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, ⁵Arthritis Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
Background/Purpose: Inflammation plays a pathogenetic role in OA, and catabolic cytokines including IL-1β potentiate joint space narrowing. Elevated serum urate (sUA) levels promote crystal-induced stimulation…
Abstract Number: 2696 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Increased Mortality in Black and Asian Patients with Systemic Sclerosis in Northern California
Melody Chung¹, Makdine Dontsi², Debbie Postlethwaite², Sumana Kesh³, Lisa Zaba⁴ and Lorinda Chung^5,6, ¹Internal Medicine Residency, Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA, ²Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, ³Department of Internal Medicine, Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA, ⁴Department of Dermatology, Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA, ⁵Division of Immunology and Rheumatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, ⁶VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA
Background/Purpose: Studies indicate that black patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) demonstrate a distinct phenotypic profile, with more severe disease, heightened mortality, and poorer prognosis compared…
Abstract Number: 1440 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Systemic Sclerosis in Pediatric Patients: An Epidemiological Study in a Large Insured Population in the US
Alexander Michel¹, Marcela Rivera², Tatsiana Vaitsiakhovich², Simon Teal² and Janethe Pena³, ¹Epidemiology, Bayer Basel, Basel, Switzerland, ²Real World Evidence, Bayer AG, Berlin, Germany, ³Clinical Development, Bayer US LLC, Whippany, NJ
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a very rare autoimmune disorder and only very few population-based epidemiological studies described its incidence and prevalence in children. In…
Abstract Number: 2766 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Seasonal Variation in Incidence of Giant Cell Arteritis: A Population-Based Cohort Study
Shafay Raheel¹, Cynthia S. Crowson² and Eric L. Matteson³, ¹St. Joseph's Hospital, Chicago, IL, ²Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, MN, ³Division of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, MN
Background/Purpose: To determine whether there is a seasonal peak onset of giant cell arteritis (GCA). We examined the seasonal variability of GCA in a geographically-defined…
Abstract Number: 274 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Socioeconomic Disparities in Disease Activity in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Lei Zhu¹, Evelyn Talbott² and Larry W. Moreland¹, ¹Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Division of Rheumatology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ²Epidemiology, University of Pittsbugh, Pittsburgh, PA
Background/Purpose: To develop a methodology for well-defined rheumatoid arthritis (RA) measurement as an outcome and provide a clear definition of social determinants related to disease…
Abstract Number: 1494 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Predictors of Persistence to Methotrexate Treatment in RA – Assessment of Different Modelling Approaches
Helga Westerlind¹, Mateusz Maciejewski², Thomas Frisell³, Scott Jelinsky⁴, Daniel Ziemek⁵ and Johan Askling¹, ¹Unit of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ²Systems Immunology, Inflammation & Immunology,, Pfizer, Cambridge, MA, ³Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁴Inflammation and Immunology, Pfizer Research and Development, Cambridge, MA, ⁵Systems Immunology, Inflammation & Immunology,, Pfizer, Berlin, Germany
Background/Purpose: As a step towards personalized medicine, we seek to identify patients with new-onset RA who are likely to remain well on MTX monotherapy. Patients…
Abstract Number: 2817 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Cardiovascular Disease Risk with Biologics and Tofacitinib Compared to Conventional Synthetic Dmards in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Gulsen Ozen¹, Sofia Pedro² and Kaleb Michaud^1,2, ¹Rheumatology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ²FORWARD, The National Databank for Rheumatic Diseases, Wichita, KS
Background/Purpose: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) represents the leading cause of death in RA, accounting for ~50% of excess mortality. Disease activity, strongly linked to CVD, has…
Abstract Number: 537 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Increased Risk of Incident Chronic Kidney Disease Among Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Cohort Studies
Patompong Ungprasert¹ and Sukit Raksasuk², ¹Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Department of Research and Development, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, ²Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
Increased Risk of Incident Chronic Kidney Disease among Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Cohort Studies AbstractBackground/Purpose: Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA)…
Abstract Number: 1611 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Hospitalizations for Serious Infections in Psoriatic Arthritis Patients: Data from the National Inpatient Sample 2000-2014
Paras Karmacharya¹, Cynthia S. Crowson², Dilli Poudel³, Pragya Shrestha⁴ and Kerry Wright⁵, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, MN, ³Internal Medicine, Reading Hospital-Tower Health System, WEST READING, PA, ⁴Internal medicine, Reading Hospital-Tower Health System, West Reading, PA, ⁵Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Background/Purpose: Increased risk of infections has been recognized in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) compared to those without PsA. Immunomodulatory effects of PsA, immunosuppressive therapies…
Abstract Number: 2857 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
An Electronic Audit, Reporting, and Data Correction System Improves the Quantity and Quality of Observational Data Collected for US Veterans Enrolled in the Veterans Affairs Rheumatoid Arthritis Registry
Grant W. Cannon^1,2, Jorge Rogas², Neill Bell³, Joshua Baker⁴, Gail S. Kerr⁵, Angelo Gaffo⁶, J. Steuart Richards⁷, Jennifer Barton⁸, Pascale Schwab⁸, Ted R. Mikuls⁹, Namrata Singh¹⁰, Liron Caplan¹¹, Deana Lazaro¹², Andreas Reimold¹³ and Brian Sauer², ¹Division of Rheumatology, Salt Lake City VA Medical Center and University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ²Salt Lake City VA Medical Center and University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ³Salt Lake City VA Medical Center and University of Utah, Dallas VA Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ⁴Philadelphia VA Medical Center and University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁵Washington VA Medical Center, Georgetown and Howard Universities, Washington, DC, ⁶Birmingham VA and University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁷Pittsburgh VA Medical Center and University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁸VA Portland Health Care System and Oregon Health and Science, Portland, OR, ⁹VA Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System and University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ¹⁰Internal Medicine, Iowa City VA Medical Center and University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ¹¹Div of Rheumatology, Denver VA Medical Center and University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, ¹²Brooklyn VA Medical Center and SUNY Downstate, Brooklyn, NY, ¹³Rheumatology, Dallas VA Medical Center and University of Texas - Southwestern, Dallas, TX
Background/Purpose: The Veterans Affairs (VA) Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) (VARA) registry is an observational cohort study of US Veterans with RA at 11 VA Medical…

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