Abstracts tagged "Epidemiology"

Abstract Number: 2520 • ACR Convergence 2024
Prevalence and Incidence of Giant Cell Arteritis Among Medicare Fee-For-Service Beneficiaries: United States, 2014–2019
Peter Merkel¹, Yi Peng², Patrick Zueger², Clara Ziadeh³, Ana B. Romero⁴, Richard Thielen³ and Denise Kruzikas³, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²AbbVie Inc, North Chicago, IL, ³AbbVie Inc., North Chicago, IL, ⁴AbbVie, North Chicago, IL
Background/Purpose: Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a vasculitis affecting individuals aged ≥50 years. Over 80% of patients with GCA are aged ≥70 years, reflecting a…
Abstract Number: 0137 • ACR Convergence 2024
The Problem of Pain in Rheumatology: Sociodemographic and Disease-related Correlates of Agreement Between Structured Data Elements and Clinical Notes in Chronic Pain Documentation Practices in EHR
Tahmina Begum¹, Bhagyavalli Veeranki¹, Ogenna Chike¹ and Titilola Falasinnu², ¹Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, ²Stanford School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA
Background/Purpose: To create greater precision in case definitions for chronic pain in EHRs, we recently identified 15 different case definitions for chronic pain using structured…
Abstract Number: 0196 • ACR Convergence 2024
Associations Between Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) and the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI)
Zoe Reed¹, Xana Howard¹, Cristina Arriens¹, Teresa Aberle¹, Wade DeJager², Joan Merrill³ and Judith James¹, ¹Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ²Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, ³Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City 73104, OK
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a complex autoimmune disease that disproportionately affects young women of certain racial and ethnic minority groups with enhanced severity…
Abstract Number: 0483 • ACR Convergence 2024
Obesity, Prednisone Use, and Patient-Reported Outcomes Are Predictors of Becoming Difficult-to-Treat in an RA Population Treated with a First-Line Biologic DMARD
Misti Paudel¹, Shravani Chitineni¹, Ruogu Li², Chinmayi Naik³, Nancy Shadick³, Michael Weinblatt⁴ and Daniel Solomon⁵, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation, and Immunity, Boston, MA, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁴Brigham and Women's Hospital/ Harvard Medical School, Waban, MA, ⁵Brigham and Women's Hospital, Newton, MA
Background/Purpose: Prior studies have evaluated the risk factors for difficult-to-treat RA (D2T-RA) but have not applied EULAR’s full criteria for D2T-RA in a longitudinal data…
Abstract Number: 0841 • ACR Convergence 2024
Clinical and Biologic Predictors of Thrombosis in Persistently Antiphospholipid Antibody Positive Patients: Prospective Analysis of the International APS ACTION Clinical Database and Repository (“Registry”)
Jonathan Thaler¹, Michael Parides¹, Danieli Andrade², Diana Paredes-Ruiz³, Maria Tektonidou⁴, Vittorio Pengo⁵, Savino Sciascia⁶, Cecilia Nalli⁷, Guilherme Ramires de Jesús⁸, Paul Fortin⁹, Maria Efthymiou¹⁰, H Michael Belmont¹¹, Michelle Petri¹², Ricard Cervera¹³, Leslie Skeith¹⁴, TATSUYA ATSUMI¹⁵, Chary Lopez-Pedrera¹⁶, Yu Zuo¹⁷, David Branch¹⁸, Rohan Willis¹⁹, Nina Kello²⁰, Zhuoli Zhang²¹, Esther Rodriguez-Almaraz²², Bahar Artim Esen²³, Jose Pardos-Gea²⁴, Guillermo Pons-Estel²⁵, Giulia Pazzola²⁶, Hui Shi¹⁷, Ali Duarte-Garcia²⁷, Medha Barbhaiya¹, Cécile Yelnik²⁸, Pierluigi Meroni²⁹, Robert Roubey³⁰, Maria Laura Bertolaccini³¹, Hannah Cohen³², Jacob Rand³³ and Doruk Erkan¹, and on behalf of APS ACTION, ¹Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ²University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, ³Autoimmune Diseases Research Unit. Biocruces Bizkaia Health Research Institute, Baracaldo, Spain, ⁴National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, ⁵Thrombosis Research Laboratory, Department of Cardio-Thoracic-Vascular Sciences and Public Health, University of Padova, Padova, Italy, ⁶University of Turin, Torino, Turin, Italy, ⁷ASST SPEDALI CIVILI DI BRESCIA, Brescia, Italy, ⁸Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, ⁹Centre ARThrite - CHU de Québec - Université Laval, Quebec, QC, Canada, ¹⁰University College London, London, United Kingdom, ¹¹NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, ¹²Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Timonium, MD, ¹³Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ¹⁴University of Calgary, Calgary, ON, Canada, ¹⁵Department of Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, ¹⁶IMIBIC/Reina Sofia Hospital/University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Andalucia, Spain, ¹⁷University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ¹⁸University of Utah and Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT, ¹⁹University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, ²⁰Northwell Health, Brooklyn, NY, ²¹Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China, ²²Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain, ²³Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Istanbul, Turkey, ²⁴Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain, ²⁵CREAR, Rosario, Argentina, ²⁶Rheumatology Unit, Azienda USL IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy, ²⁷Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²⁸lille university, Lille, France, ²⁹IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano 100%, Cusano Milanino, Milan, Milan, Italy, ³⁰Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, ³¹King's College London, London, United Kingdom, ³²University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom, ³³Weill Cornell Medical Center, Bronx, NY
Background/Purpose: There is a lack of high-quality data to inform risk-stratified long-term thrombosis prevention strategies in patients with persistently positive antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL). The APS…
Abstract Number: 0998 • ACR Convergence 2024
Trends and Disparities in Cardiovascular Deaths in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Population-Based Retrospective Study in the United States from 1999 to 2021
Faizan Ahmed¹, Shreyas Patil², Yash Deshpande³, Simran Bhimani³, Anand Maligireddy⁴, Leighton Hope⁵, Tehmasp Rehman Mirza⁶, Mohamed Abugrin⁷, Hardik Valand⁸, Chaitanya Rojulpote⁵ and karthik Gonuguntla⁹, ¹Ameer-ud-Din Medical College, Lahore, Pakistan, ²The Wright Center, Scranton, ³The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education, Scranton, PA, ⁴The Wright Center, GME, Scranton, PA, ⁵Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, ⁶Department of Internal Medicine, Shalamar Medical and Dental College, Lahore, ⁷Bassett Medical Center, Cooperstown, ⁸Trinity Health System, Steubenville, OH, ⁹West Virginia University, Morgantown
Background/Purpose: This study aimed to analyze two decades of consecutive mortality data to investigate cardiovascular deaths in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) across the United States…
Abstract Number: 1143 • ACR Convergence 2024
Epidemiology and Spectrum of Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies in Individuals of Sub-Saharan Ancestry: Data from the Tertiary Care Center of the Caribbean Island of Martinique
Benoit Suzon¹, Rachel Robert¹, Fabienne Louis-sidney², Arthur Felix¹, Illitch Coco-Viloin¹, Florence Moinet³, Rodolphe Cougnaud¹, Rémi Bellance¹, Emmanuelle Amazan¹, Emma pierrisnard¹, Moustapha Agossou¹, Christophe Deligny⁴ and Aurore Abel¹, ¹University Hospital of Martinique, Fort-de-France, Martinique, ²University Hospital Martinique, Fort De France, Martinique, ³University Hospital of Martinique, Fort de France, France, ⁴University Hospital of Martinique - National reference center for autoimmune disease, Internal Medicine, Fort-de-France, Martinique
Background/Purpose: Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) are heterogeneous systemic autoimmune diseases with a worldwide incidence ranging from 0.116 to 1.9 and a prevalence from 2.4 to…
Abstract Number: 1451 • ACR Convergence 2024
Predictors and Patterns of Fragility Fracture in an Observational Cohort of Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis
Hamzah Amin¹ and Marwan Bukhari², ¹Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom, ²University Hospitals of Morecambe bay NHS foundation trust, Lancaster, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Data on bone health in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) are scarce with low numbers being described in the literature , a meta-analysis published…
Abstract Number: 1873 • ACR Convergence 2024
Race/Ethnicity and Household Income at the County Level Interacts with the Association of Urbanicity and Lupus Nephritis Mortality
Snehin Rajkumar¹, Eric Yen² and Ram Singh³, ¹UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Irvine, CA, ²UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ³UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
Background/Purpose: The reasons underlying substantial variation in lupus nephritis (LN) deaths by race/ethnicity remain largely unknown. There are no large population-based studies focused on the…
Abstract Number: 1900 • ACR Convergence 2024
Dietary Exposures Associated with Incident Spondyloarthritis
Griffin Reed, Cynthia Crowson, Ryan Lennon, John Davis and Vanessa Kronzer, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Background/Purpose: Studies have shown that diet can modify the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis [1], but the association between diet and spondyloarthritis (SpA) remains largely…
Abstract Number: 2198 • ACR Convergence 2024
Severe and Long-Term Outcomes of COVID-19 Infection and Vaccine Hesitancy and Adverse Events in Children with Pediatric Rheumatic Diseases: Insights from a COVID-19 Global Rheumatology Alliance Caregiver Survey
Jonathan Hausmann¹, Kevin Kennedy², Ethan Knapp³, Nadine Lalonde⁴, jOhn Wallace⁵, Richard Howard⁶, Marcela Alvarez⁷, Mariana Fabi⁸, Lorena Franco⁹, Rebecca Grainger¹⁰, Jean Liew¹¹, Pedro M Machado¹², Zachary Wallace¹³, Jinoos Yazdany¹⁴ and Emily Sirotich¹⁵, and COVID-19 Global Rheumatology Alliance, ¹Division of Immunology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ³University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, ⁴COVID-19 Global Rheumatology Alliance, London, ON, Canada, ⁵Covid 19 Global Rheumatology Alliance Patient Board, EDINBURGH, United Kingdom, ⁶Spondylitis Association of America, Encino, CA, ⁷CHIDRENS HOSPITAL DR. RICARDO GUTIERREZ ARGENTINA, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ⁸Argentine Society of Rheumatology, La Plata, Argentina, ⁹Argentine Society of Rheumatology, Cordoba, Argentina, ¹⁰University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand, ¹¹Boston University, Boston, MA, ¹²Department of Neuromuscular Diseases and Centre for Rheumatology, University College London, London, United Kingdom, ¹³Massachusetts General Hospital, Newton, MA, ¹⁴UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ¹⁵Yale University, Vaughan, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Children have the lowest COVID-19 vaccination rates of any age group. In adults with rheumatic diseases, barriers to vaccination include the perceived lack of…
Abstract Number: 2521 • ACR Convergence 2024
Clinicopathologic Associations Between Macrophage Location and Functional Profile in Giant Cell Arteritis
Michael Putman¹, Nader Khalidi², Carol Langford³, Curry Koening⁴, Christian Pagnoux⁵, David Cuthbertson⁶, Carol McAlear⁷ and Peter Merkel⁷, and the Vasculitis Clinical Research Consortium (VCRC), ¹The Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, ²McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ³Cleveland Clinic, Moreland Hills, OH, ⁴University of Texas Dell Medical School, Austin, TX, ⁵Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁶University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, ⁷University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Background/Purpose: Macrophages play a central role in the pathogenesis of giant cell arteritis (GCA), but few studies have correlated macrophage phenotype or topography from temporal…
Abstract Number: 0133 • ACR Convergence 2023
COVID-19 Vaccination-related Delayed Adverse Events Among Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Results from the COVAD Study
Madiha Fathima¹, Bohdana Doskaliuk², Julius Lindblom¹, Elena Nikiphorou³, Chris Wincup⁴, Sreoshy Saha⁵, Syahrul Sazliyana Shaharir⁶, Wanruchada Katchamart⁷, Phonpen Akarawatcharangura Goo⁸, Lisa Traboco⁹, Yi-Ming Chen¹⁰, Kshitij Jagtap¹¹, James Lilleker¹², Arvind Nune¹³, John Pauling¹⁴, Vishwesh Agarwal¹⁵, Dey Dzifa¹⁶, CARLOS ENRIQUE TORO GUTIERREZ¹⁷, CARLO VINICIO CABALLERO¹⁸, Hector Chinoy¹⁹, Rohit Aggarwal²⁰, Vikas Agarwal²¹, Latika Gupta²² and Ioannis Parodis¹, ¹Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ²SHEI "Ivano-Frankivsk national medical university", Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, ³King's College London, London, United Kingdom, ⁴King's College Hospital, London, United Kingdom, ⁵Mymensingh Medical College, Faridpur, Bangladesh, ⁶Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 56000, Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ⁷Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, ⁸Department of Medicine, Queen Savang Vadhana Memorial Hospital, Chonburi, Thailand, ⁹University of the Philippines - Manila, St Luke's Medical Center - Bonifacio Global City, Paranaque, Manila, Philippines, ¹⁰Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, ¹¹Seth Gordhandhas Sunderdas Medical College and King Edwards Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India, ¹²Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, Division of Musculoskeletal and Dermatological Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; Manchester Centre for Clinical Neurosciences, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Salford, UK. Orcid ID: 0000-0002-9230-4137., Manchester, United Kingdom, ¹³Southport & Ormskirk NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom, ¹⁴North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol, United Kingdom, ¹⁵Mahatma Gandhi Missions Medical College, Lucknow, India, ¹⁶Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Ghana School of Medicine and Dentistry, College of Health Sciences, Korle-Bu, Accra, Ghana, ¹⁷Centro de Estudios de Reumatología y Dermatología SAS, Cali, Colombia, ¹⁸REUMACARIBE IPS, Barranquilla, Colombia, ¹⁹The University of Manchester, Sale, United Kingdom, ²⁰University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ²¹Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS), Lucknow, India, ²²Royal Wolverhampton Trust, Wolverhampton/University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: COVID-19 vaccines have been proven to be safe in healthy populations. However, data on delayed adverse effects (AEs) in people with autoimmune diseases (AIDs),…
Abstract Number: 0417 • ACR Convergence 2023
The Role of Rheumatoid Arthritis Flare in the Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias: A Population-based Cohort Study
Chanakya Kodishala¹, Tina Gunderson², Edward Lovering², Rakesh Kumar², Cynthia Crowson², John Davis² and Elena Myasoedova², ¹Mayo Clinic Rochester Minnesota, Rochester, MN, ²Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Background/Purpose: Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have increased risk for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD). Recent studies have reported an association between RA disease…
Abstract Number: 0673 • ACR Convergence 2023
Reporting of Race, Ethnicity, Sex, Gender, Socioeconomic Status and Representativeness of Race and Ethnicity in ANCA-associated Vasculitis Randomized Trials
Michele Iudici¹, Juan C. Rueda² and Xavier Puéchal³, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine Specialties, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland, ²Universidad de La Sabana, Chía, Colombia, Chia, Colombia, ³National Referral Center for Rare Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: To assess how and to what extent race, ethnicity, sex, gender and socioeconomic status of participants are reported in ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV) randomized controlled…

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