Abstracts tagged "Epidemiology"

Abstract Number: 0691 • ACR Convergence 2025
Association of Elevated Platelets and CRP With Severe Disease and Poor Survival in Systemic Sclerosis
Brian Lee¹, Shufeng Li¹, Srijana Davuluri², Jennifer Lee¹ and Lorinda Chung², ¹Stanford University, Stanford, ²Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Background/Purpose: Elevated acute phase reactants such as platelets and C-reactive protein (CRP) have been used as inclusion criteria to enrich systemic sclerosis (SSc) clinical trials…
Abstract Number: 0360 • ACR Convergence 2025
Assessing Content Validity of a New Questionnaire Evaluating Glucocorticoid Toxicity
Timothy Howell¹, anne Skalicky², Louis Matza¹, John Stone³, Martha Stone⁴, Vijayaraghava Rao⁵ and Glenn Phillips⁵, ¹evidera, Washington, DC, ²evidera, Seattle, WA, ³Massachusetts General Hospital , Harvard Medical School, Concord, MA, ⁴Steritas, LLC, Concord, MA, ⁵argenx, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: While glucocorticoids (GCs) are commonly used to treat a range of inflammatory diseases, the burden of toxicities associated with these medications is significant. The…
Abstract Number: 0154 • ACR Convergence 2025
Incidence and Prevalence of Connective Tissue Diseases with Interstitial Lung Disease (CTD-ILD) in the United States
Diana Martins¹, George Mu², Elaine Irving³, Roger A. Levy⁴, Nisha Bhatt⁵ and Keele E. Wurst⁶, ¹GSK, Epidemiology, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²GSK, Statistics, Collegeville, PA, ³GSK, Clinical, Stevenage, United Kingdom, ⁴GSK, Specialty Care, Global Medical Affairs, Collegeville, PA, ⁵GSK, Global Medical Affairs, Collegeville, PA, ⁶GSK, Immunology and Emerging Epidemiology, Durham, NC
Background/Purpose: Despite the high disease burden and reduced quality of life for patients with CTD-ILD, data on its incidence and prevalence – particularly by CTD…
Abstract Number: 2571 • ACR Convergence 2025
Rare Clinically Significant Methotrexate Toxicity Despite Frequent Laboratory Abnormalities: A Population-Based Study of Methotrexate Monitoring
Griffin Reed¹, Jeffrey Yang¹, Georges El Hasbani¹, Cynthia Crowson², Hannah Langenfeld¹, Jeffrey Sparks³, Bryant England⁴, gabriela Schmajuk⁵, Kaleb Michaud⁴, John Davis¹ and Vanessa Kronzer¹, ¹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Mayo Clinic, Stewartvillle, MN, ³Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁴University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ⁵University of California, San Francisco, and San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Methotrexate laboratory monitoring is highly resource intensive, and recent evidence questions whether the true toxicity of methotrexate has been over-estimated. Therefore, we aimed to…
Abstract Number: 2018 • ACR Convergence 2025
Investigating Epidemiology, Clinical associations, and Outcomes of Uveitis: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Archit Srivastava¹, Jayesh Valecha², Sehreen Mumtaz¹, Caroyln Harvey³, Florentina Berianu¹ and Vikas Majithia⁴, ¹Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL, ²Saint Vincent Hospital, Worchester, FL, ³Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ, ⁴Mayo Clinic Hospital, Jacksonville, FL
Background/Purpose: Uveitis is a significant cause of visual impairment in the U.S., with a prevalence of 438 per 100,000 persons [1]. It is anatomically classified…
Abstract Number: 1897 • ACR Convergence 2025
Changes in SLE Mortality During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
Laura Hernandez¹ and Ram Singh², ¹University of California, Los Angeles, Murrieta, CA, ²UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
Background/Purpose: Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are vulnerable to infections due to both underlying immune dysfunction and the use of immunosuppressive therapies. Hence, it…
Abstract Number: 1644 • ACR Convergence 2025
Longitudinal Trajectory Models to Assess Pain and Risk of Difficult-to-Treat Rheumatoid Arthritis
Misti Paudel¹, Leah Santacroce², 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 & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁴Brigham and Women's Hospital/ Harvard Medical School, Waban, MA, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation, and Immunity, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Prior studies have observed that patient-reported outcomes, such as pain, are risk factors for progression to difficult-to-treat RA (D2T-RA), a state of multi-treatment failure.…
Abstract Number: 1351 • ACR Convergence 2025
Are Glucocorticoids Associated with Worse Overall Survival among Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Treated with Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors? The Confounding Effect of Dexamethasone
Deanna Jannat-Khah¹, Jeffrey Curtis², Fenglong Xie³, Ashish Saxena⁴ and Anne R. Bass¹, ¹Hospital For Special Surgery, New York, NY, ²Foundation for Advancing Science, Technology, Education and Research, Birmingham, AL, ³The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁴Weill Cornell Medicine, New York
Background/Purpose: Previous studies suggest that glucocorticoids are associated with worse survival in patients receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI). This is an important issue for Rheumatoid…
Abstract Number: 1033 • ACR Convergence 2025
Rethinking ANA in Rheumatoid Arthritis: ICAP Pattern Insights from a Large-Scale Taiwanese Cohort
Tien-Ming Chan, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan (Republic of China)
Background/Purpose: ANA prevalence and patterns vary in RA. Using ICAP nomenclature, this study aimed to determine the prevalence of RA across different ANA patterns and…
Abstract Number: 0607 • ACR Convergence 2025
Age at Diagnosis of SLE has Increased in a United States Longitudinal Cohort
Daniel Goldman¹, Andrea Fava², Laurence Magder³ and Michelle Petri¹, ¹Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Timonium, MD, ²Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ³University of Maryland, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
Background/Purpose: The demographics of our lupus cohort have shifted over the decades towards an older population. While much of the shift can be attributed to…
Abstract Number: 0356 • ACR Convergence 2025
An Analysis of Osteoporosis Screening in Males 50 and Older with Rheumatic Disease across Stony Brook Medicine Network
Stephen Poos¹, Hoang Nguyen², Samuel Greenberg³, Marcus Lee², Heidi Roppelt¹ and Asha Patnaik², ¹Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, Southampton, NY, ²Stony Brook University Hospital, Stony Brook, NY, ³Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
Background/Purpose: Osteoporosis is under screened in men. The United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) does not publish guidelines for osteoporosis screening in men. Other…
Abstract Number: 0151 • ACR Convergence 2025
Post-COVID Decline in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Mortality in the United States: A National Analysis from 2014 to 2023
Ghassan Makhoul¹, Aziz-ur-Rahman Khalid², Islam Rajab¹, Hasan Munshi¹, Emmanuel Olumuyide³, MD Walid Akram Hussain¹, Aqsa Sorathia¹, Reshma John¹, Ahmed Huzien¹, ivan Mercado¹, Nargis Mateen⁴ and Robert Lahita², ¹St. Josephs University Medical Center, Paterson, ²St. Josephs University Medical Center, Wayne, NJ, ³Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago, ⁴St. Josephs University Medical Center, Paterson, NJ
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic multisystem autoimmune disease with high morbidity and mortality. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on SLE-related deaths…
Abstract Number: 2570 • ACR Convergence 2025
Accelerometer-derived ‘weekend warrior’ physical activity, genetic susceptibility, and incident rheumatoid arthritis: a prospective cohort study
Zihao Xu¹ and Zhixiu Li², ¹Southern University of Science and Technology, ShenZhen, China (People's Republic), ²Southern University of Science and Technology, ShenZhen, Guangdong, China (People's Republic)
Background/Purpose: Physical activity is associated with a reduced risk of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, it is unclear whether the 'weekend warrior' (WW) pattern, characterized by…
Abstract Number: 2008 • ACR Convergence 2025
Exposure to Anaerobic Antibiotics and Risk of Gout Flares: Target Trial Emulation for the Potential Role of the Gut Microbiome in Gout and Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)
Natalie McCormick¹, Sharan Rai², Chio Yokose³, leo lu⁴, Robert Terkeltaub⁵, Lama Nazzal⁶, Huilin Li⁶, Dylan Dodd⁷ and Hyon K. Choi⁸, ¹Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ³Massachusetts General Hospital, Waltham, MA, ⁴Arthritis Research Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ⁵Retired, San Diego, CA, ⁶NYU Langone, New York, NY, ⁷Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, ⁸MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL, Lexington, MA
Background/Purpose: As reported in Cell Press journals,1,2 intestinal commensal purine-degrading bacteria anaerobically degrade urate to anti-inflammatory short chain fatty acids, including butyrate, and thus may…
Abstract Number: 1895 • ACR Convergence 2025
Assessing the Validity of Self-Reported Medication Data Through Metabolite Analysis: Data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative
Kate Lapane¹, Anne Hume², Jeffrey Driban³, Shao-Hsien Liu¹, Timothy McAlington⁴, Charles Eaton⁵, Shike Xu⁶ and Bing Lu⁷, ¹UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, ²College of Pharmacy, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, ³University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Marlborough, NH, ⁴UMass Chan School of Medicine, Arlington, MA, ⁵Brown University, Pawtucket, RI, ⁶University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT, ⁷UConn Health Center, Newton, MA
Background/Purpose: Pharmacotherapy, including non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents (NSAIDs), is commonly used to alleviate symptoms of osteoarthritis (OA); however, these medications may increase the risk of adverse…

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