Abstracts tagged "Epidemiology"

Abstract Number: 1201 • ACR Convergence 2024
Association of COVID-19 Vaccinations with Osteoarthritis Flares: A Case-Crossover Study
Minerva Nong¹, Colby Lewis V², Genna Braverman³, Vivian Bykerk³, Nathaniel Hupert², Medha Barbhaiya³ and Lisa Mandl³, ¹Hospital for Special Surgery, Tampa, FL, ²Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ³Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: People with osteoarthritis (OA) commonly experience periods of increased pain and stiffness (“flares”), which can be distressing and disabling. Despite the prevalence of OA…
Abstract Number: 1508 • ACR Convergence 2024
Clinical Characteristics and Prognosis of Late-onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in 305 Japanese Patients
Yuko Shirota¹, Misa Oguma², Ryo Kuwata³, Yumi Tajima⁴, Yumiko Oka⁵, Miki Takeshita², Takao Kodera² and Tomonori Ishii², ¹Tohoku University Hospital / Department of Hematology and Rheumatology, Sendai, Japan, ²Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University / Department of Hematology and Rheumatology, Sendai, Japan, ³National Center for Global Health and Medicine / Division of Rheumatic Diseases, Shinjyuku, Tokyo, Japan, ⁴Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University / Department of Hematology and Rheumatology, Sendai, Miyazaki, Japan, ⁵Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University / Department of Hematology and Rheumatology, Sendai
Background/Purpose: In recent years, the number of older patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in Japan has been increasing, with particular attention to those developing…
Abstract Number: 1881 • ACR Convergence 2024
Cross-State Comparative Assessment of Burden of Rheumatoid Arthritis in the United States and It’s Trend from 1990-2021: A Benchmarking Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2022
Rafael Sanchez-Dopazo,¹, Eva Kalra², Shadi Abuhashem³, abobakr Saleh⁴, Khalid Faris⁵, Rutvik Raval⁶, Shamitha Hejmadi⁶, Lovekumar Vala⁷, Riya Dhadhal⁸ and Hardik Desai⁹, ¹Larkin Community Hospital Palm Springs Campus, Hialeah, FL, ²Trident Medical Cente, Charleston, SC, ³Alquds University, Jerusalem, West Bank, Palestine, 9458123, Gaza, Palestinian Territories, ⁴kasr alainy Medical School - Cairo University,Egypt/ 11956, Cairo, Egypt, ⁵Studied in Al-Quds university, Palestine, Gaza, Palestinian Territories, ⁶B.J. Medical College, Ahmedabad, India, ⁷Department of Internal Medicine, Shantabaa Medical College and General Hospital, Amreli, Gujarat, India, 365601, Amreli, Gujarat, India, ⁸SMIMER Hospital & Medical College, Surat, Gujarat, India, ⁹Gujarat Adani Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhuj, India
Background/Purpose: The burden of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) in the United States is considerable, both in terms of its prevalence and the economic costs it incurs.…
Abstract Number: 1906 • ACR Convergence 2024
Bayesian Algorithm to Identify Osteoarthritis in Administrative Health Data Without Requiring Chart Review
S. Reza Jafarzadeh¹, Sarah Tilley¹, Anup Arvind¹ and David Felson², ¹Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ²Boston University, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most prevalent arthritis and a significant contributor to Years Lived with Disability. Administrative health data are widely used to study…
Abstract Number: 2322 • ACR Convergence 2024
Predictors of Work Impairment and Absence Amongst People with Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) – Evidence from the British Society for Rheumatology PsA Register (BSR-PsA)
Lili Xu¹, Gareth Jones¹, Ovidiu Rotariu¹, Philip S. Helliwell², Stefan Siebert³, Rosemary Hollick¹ and Gary Macfarlane¹, ¹University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, ²Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, Leeds, United Kingdom, ³School of Infection and Immunity, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: People with PsA often report that their condition affects their ability to work. Poor work outcomes, such as work impairment, absence or leaving work,…
Abstract Number: 2556 • ACR Convergence 2024
A Multi-center Study of Associations Between Neighborhood-Level Child Opportunity, Initial Disease Severity and Acute Care Utilization Among Children with SLE
Joyce Chang¹, Jessica Liu¹, Emily Smitherman², Pooja Patel³, Gabrielle Alonzi¹, Gabrielle Morgan⁴, Livie Timmerman⁵, Laura Berbert⁶, Edie Weller¹, Karen Costenbader⁷ and Mary Beth Son⁸, ¹Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ³Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ⁴Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ⁵University of Alabama at Birmingham, Gardendale, AL, ⁶Boston Children's Hospital, Belmont, MA, ⁷Brigham and Women's Hospital/ Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁸Boston Children's Hospital, Brookline, MA
Background/Purpose: Child opportunity is defined as the neighborhood resources and conditions that promote healthy childhood development. We determined whether low neighborhood-level opportunity associates with more…
Abstract Number: 0139 • ACR Convergence 2023
Systemic Vasculitides in Portugal and Brazil: Preliminary Results from the Reuma.pt/vasculitis Registry
Mariana de Aguiar¹, Alexandre wagner Silva de Souza², Joana Martinho³, Adriana Carones⁴, Ana Beatriz Bacchiega de Freitas⁵, Ana Catarina Duarte⁶, Ana Filipa Águeda⁷, Camila Souto Oliveira Elias⁸, Catarina Cortesão⁹, Catarina Soares¹⁰, Carla Macieira¹¹, Carlos Eduardo Garcez Teixeira¹², Daniela Peixoto¹³, Duarte Vinha³, Estela Nogueira³, Fabricia Simil¹⁴, Francisca Guimarães¹³, Frederico Rajão Martins¹⁵, Gilda Ferreira¹⁶, Helena Assunção⁴, Heloisa Rulff⁸, Jorge Pestana Lopes⁶, José Costa³, Julia Medeiros¹⁷, Lilian Santos Porto¹⁸, Luiz Felipe Adsuara¹⁷, Manuella Ochtrop⁸, Maria João Gonçalves¹⁹, Mariana Diz Lopes²⁰, Matheus Vieira²¹, Nikita Khmelinskii¹¹, Rita Torres²², Sarah Neaime¹, Vitor Teixeira²³, Zoraida Sachetto¹² and Cristina Ponte²⁴, ¹Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil, ²Division of Rheumatology, Medical School, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ³Centro Hospitalar Universitario Lisboa Norte, Lisboa, Portugal, ⁴Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, ⁵Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde de Barretos, Barretos, Brazil, ⁶Hospital Garcia de Orta, Almada, Portugal, ⁷Centro Hospitalar Universitário Cova da Beira, Covilhã, Portugal, ⁸Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ⁹Instituto Português de Reumatologia, Lisboa, Portugal, ¹⁰Centro Unidade Local de Saúde do Alto Minho, Viana do Castelo, Portugal, ¹¹Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte, Lisboa, Portugal, ¹²Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil, ¹³Centro Unidade Local de Saúde do Alto Minho, Ponte de Lima, Portugal, ¹⁴Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, ¹⁵Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Centre of Algarve, Faro, Portugal, ¹⁶Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, ¹⁷Santa Casa de Misericórdia de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ¹⁸Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Belo Horizonte, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, ¹⁹Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Ocidental, Lisboa, Portugal, ²⁰Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João, Porto, Portugal, ²¹Universidade Federal de São Paulo; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ²²Hospital Egas Moniz, Lisboa, Portugal, ²³Hospital de Faro, CHUA, Lisbon, Portugal, ²⁴Department of Rheumatology, Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte, Centro Académico de Medicina de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal; Rheumatology Research Unit, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Centro Académico de Medicina de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Background/Purpose: The epidemiology of vasculitis varies widely across different geographic areas of the world which may be due to different ethnic and environmental factors. Brazil…
Abstract Number: 0477 • ACR Convergence 2023
Continuing TNFi After Pregnancy Diagnosis in Women with Chronic Rheumatic Inflammatory Diseases Is Not Associated with Worse Obstetrical or Infant Outcomes and Seems to Reduce Risk of Maternal Severe Infection: The Results of the Emulated Target Trial BioGRIC
Anna Molto¹, aya ajrouche², Diep Tran², Nathalie Costedoat-Chalumeau³, Elisabeth Elefant⁴, Vassilis Tsatsaris⁵, Jeanne Fresson⁶, Brigitte Bader-Meunier⁵, Bruno Fautrel⁷ and Florence Tubach², ¹HOPITAL COCHIN AP-HP, Service de Rhumatologie, Paris, France, ²Centre de pharmaco-épidémiologie de l'APHP, Paris, France, ³Inserm DR Paris 5, Paris, France, ⁴APHP, Paris, France, ⁵Paris-Cité University, Paris, France, ⁶CHU Nancy, Nancy, France, ⁷Sorbonne Université APHP, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: Many women with chronic rheumatic inflammatory diseases (CRID) stop tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi) treatment once pregnancy is confirmed to avoid potential adverse fetal…
Abstract Number: 0739 • ACR Convergence 2023
Major Adverse Cardiovascular Event and Venous Thromboembolism Risk Comparing Advanced Therapies Among Individuals with Axial Spondylarthritis and Psoriatic Arthritis
Sali Merjanah¹, Devin Driscoll², Christine Peloquin³, Jean liew³ and Maureen Dubreuil⁴, ¹Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ²Boston University/Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, ³Boston University, Boston, MA, ⁴Department of Rheumatology, Boston University School of Medicine, Milton, MA
Background/Purpose: Individuals with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) have increased cardiovascular risk compared to the general population, which is partly explained by systemic…
Abstract Number: 0985 • ACR Convergence 2023
Assessing the Value of Comorbidity Clusters in Predicting Clinical Outcomes in Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Machine Learning Approach Using a Very Large US Registry
Daniel Solomon¹, Fredrik Johansson², Hongshu Guan³, Leah Santacroce⁴, Lin Guo⁵, Wendi Malley⁵ and Heather Litman⁵, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Newton, MA, ²Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg, Sweden, ³Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁴Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁵CorEvitas, LLC, Waltham, MA
Background/Purpose: Comorbid conditions are very common in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and several prior studies have derived comorbidity clusters using machine learning (ML). Clustering using ML…
Abstract Number: 1352 • ACR Convergence 2023
Similar Delivery Outcomes in Pregnant Patients with and Without Takayasu Arteritis – A Nationwide Inpatient Database Study
Yanint Raksadawan¹, Aravind Polam¹, Nattanicha Chaisrimaneepan² and Sabahat Usmani¹, ¹Weiss Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, ²Texas Tech University Health Sciences, Lubbock, TX
Background/Purpose: Takayasu's arteritis (TA) is a large vessel vasculitis which affects women of reproductive age. There is limited information about the effect of TA on…
Abstract Number: 1806 • ACR Convergence 2023
The Prevalence of Cardiac Sarcoidosis – A Systemic Review and Meta-Analysis
Daming Shao¹, Jiyoung Seo¹, Shaunak Mangeshkar¹, Natalia Nazarenko¹, Stepan Esagian¹, Leonidas Palaiodimos¹ and Damianos Kokkinidis², ¹Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Jacobi Medical Center, Bronx, NY, ²Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Background/Purpose: Cardiac sarcoidosis (CS) results from granulomatous infiltrating of the myocardium and manifests as an extended clinical spectrum from silence to conduction disturbances, ventricular tachyarrhythmias,…
Abstract Number: 1979 • ACR Convergence 2023
Weight Loss Induced by Anti-obesity Medications and All-cause Mortality Among Patients with Knee or Hip Osteoarthritis
Jie Wei¹, david Hunter², Nancy Lane³, Jing Wu⁴, Chao Zeng⁵, Guanghua Lei⁵ and Yuqing Zhang⁶, ¹Health Management Center, Xiangya Hospital Central South University, Changsha, China, ²Sydney Musculoskeletal Health, University of Sydney, St. Leonards, Australia, ³University of California, Hillsborough, CA, ⁴Key Laboratory of Aging-related Bone and Joint Diseases Prevention and Treatment, Ministry of Education, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China, ⁵Department of Orthopaedics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China, ⁶Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: The current international guidelines recommend weight loss for pain relief and functional improvement in overweight or obese patients with knee or hip osteoarthritis; however,…
Abstract Number: 2281 • ACR Convergence 2023
Epidemiology and Risk of Brain Abscess in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Taiwan: A Nationwide Population-based Study
Ke-Hung Lin¹, Tzu-Min Lin¹ and Chi-Ching Chang², ¹Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ²Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune systemic disorder with high morbidity and mortality. Although CNS infections account for only 0.53–2.25% of all infections…
Abstract Number: 2531 • ACR Convergence 2023
Proton Pump Inhibitor Use Is Associated with Impaired Bone Mineral Density but Not Bone Microarchitecture in Patients with Inflammatory Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases Taking Glucocorticoids
Andriko Palmowski¹, Gabriela Schmajuk², Jinoos Yazdany³, Patti Katz⁴, Jing Li⁵, Rachael Stovall⁵, Emma Kersey⁵, Sabrina Mai Nielsen⁶, Robin Christensen⁷, Henning Bliddal⁸, Zhivana Boyadzhieva⁹, Udo Schneider⁹, Tobias Alexander¹⁰, Burkhard Muche¹¹, Sandra Hermann¹¹, Edgar Wiebe¹¹ and Frank Buttgereit¹¹, ¹Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ²UCSF / SFVA, San Francisco, CA, ³University of California, General Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, San Francisco, CA, ⁴University of California San Francisco, San Rafael, CA, ⁵University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁶The Parker Institute, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark, ⁷Musculoskeletal Statistics Unit, The Parker Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark, ⁸The Parker Institute, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Frederiksberg, Denmark, ⁹Charité Universitatsmedizine - Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ¹⁰Charité Universiätsmedizin Berlin, Dept. Rheumatology, Berlin, Germany, ¹¹Charité Universitätsmedizin, Dept. Rheumatology, Berlin, Germany
Background/Purpose: Patients with inflammatory rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (iRMDs) are at increased risk of osteoporosis and fragility fractures. For this population, whether proton pump inhibitor…

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