Abstracts tagged "Epidemiology"

Abstract Number: 0589 • ACR Convergence 2021
Circulating Adipokines and Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis in Women
Zhe Fang¹, Jing Cui², Jeffrey Sparks¹, Susan Malspeis², Kazuki Yoshida¹, Karen Costenbader³, Elizabeth Karlson¹ and Bing Lu⁴, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Brigham Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Brigham and Women's Hospital, Belmont, MA, ⁴Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Newton, MA
Background/Purpose: Adipokines secreted by adipose tissues thought to be involved in RA pathogenesis by stimulating systematic inflammation. We examined the association between circulating adipokines (leptin,…
Abstract Number: 0989 • ACR Convergence 2021
Risk Factors for Hydroxychloroquine Retinopathy and Its Subtypes – Prospective Adjudication Analysis of 4,899 Incident Users
April Jorge¹, Ronald Melles², Carol Conell³, Na Lu⁴, Michael Marmor⁵, Lucy Young⁶, Natalie McCormick¹, Yuqing Zhang⁷ and Hyon K. Choi⁸, ¹Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Redwood City Medical Center, Department of Ophthalmology, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Redwood City, CA, ³Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Palo Alto, CA, ⁴Arthritis Research Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ⁵Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, ⁶Massachusetts Eye and Ear Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁷Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology, Mass General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁸Massachusetts General Hospital, Lexington, MA
Background/Purpose: Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is a key treatment for patients with lupus and other rheumatic diseases; however, the known risk factors for HCQ retinopathy (its major…
Abstract Number: 1134 • ACR Convergence 2021
Osteoarthritis Risk Is Increased in Patients with Atopic Disease
Matthew Baker¹, Khushboo Sheth², Rong Lu³, Di Lu³, Ericka von Kaeppler⁴, Archana Bhat⁴, David Felson⁵ and William Robinson⁴, ¹Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA, ²Stanford University/VA Palo Alto, Atherton, CA, ³Stanford University, Stanford, ⁴Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, ⁵Boston University, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a highly prevalent disease resulting in joint pain and impaired function. Allergic pathways, including mast cell activation, may play a key…
Abstract Number: 1730 • ACR Convergence 2021
Disease Activity and Outcome in Pregnancies of Patients with SpA – Data from the German Pregnancy Register RHEKISS
Anja Weiß¹, Christina Bungartz¹, Jutta Richter², Susanna Späthling-Mestekemper³, Xenofon Baraliakos⁴, Peer Aries⁵, Rebecca Fischer-Betz⁶ and Anja Strangfeld⁷, ¹DRFZ, Berlin, Germany, ²Rheumatology and Hiller Research Unit, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Medical Faculty, Duesseldorf, Germany, ³Rheumapraxis München, München, Germany, ⁴Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet Herne, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Herne, Germany, ⁵Rheumatologie in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, ⁶Uniklinik Dsseldorf, Dsseldorf, Germany, ⁷Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Background/Purpose: SpA is a severe chronic inflammatory disease, which affects quality of life and functional status. It frequently occurs in women of childbearing age. Active…
Abstract Number: 0257 • ACR Convergence 2021
Can We Assess Disability in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis with Two Simple Questions? Results from the CAPRI Registry
Meghan McPherson¹, Kristin Houghton², Nikola Surjanovic³, Thomas Loughin³, Roberta Berard⁴, Jean-Philippe Proulx-Gauthier⁵, Gaelle Chedeville⁶, Dax Rumsey⁷, Heinrike Schmeling⁸, Nadia Luca⁸, Nicole Johnson⁸, Tommy Gerschman², Paivi Miettunen⁸, Evelyn Rozenblyum⁹, Herman Tam¹⁰, Lilliam Lim⁷, Kimberly Morishita², Rosie Scuccimarri¹¹, Johannes Roth¹², Ciaran Duffy¹², Lori Tucker¹³, Brian Feldman¹⁴ and Jaime Guzman¹⁵, ¹University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ²University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ³Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, ⁴London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON, Canada, ⁵Laval University, Québec City, QC, Canada, ⁶The Montreal Children's Hospital, Montréal, QC, Canada, ⁷University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ⁸University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ⁹Temerty School of Medicine and Unity Health, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹⁰Stollery Children's Hospital, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ¹¹MgGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada, ¹²University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ¹³BC Children's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ¹⁴The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹⁵University of British Columbia and BC Children's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Background/Purpose: To assess if a combination of two questions (Functional Arthritis Screening with Two Questions - FAST index) can detect and roughly estimate the degree…
Abstract Number: 0482 • ACR Convergence 2021
Metformin Use Reduces the Risk of Developing Osteoarthritis: A Propensity Score Matching Study
Khushboo Sheth¹, Di Lu², Rong Lu², William Robinson³ and Matthew Baker⁴, ¹Stanford University/VA Palo Alto, Atherton, CA, ²Stanford University, Stanford, ³Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, ⁴Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA
Background/Purpose: Preclinical and observational data suggest a protective effect of metformin against developing osteoarthritis (OA).1,2 In this retrospective cohort study, we evaluated the time to…
Abstract Number: 0590 • ACR Convergence 2021
Association of Lipid Mediator Profiles and Development of Future Incident Inflammatory Arthritis in a High Risk, Anti-citrullinated Protein Antibody Positive Population
Lauren Vanderlinden¹, Elizabeth Bemis², Kristen Polinski³, Kristen Demoruelle⁴, Marie Feser⁵, Jennifer Seifert⁶, Ted Mikuls⁷, Michael Weisman⁸, Jane Buckner⁹, Kevin Deane¹⁰, Michael Clare-Salzler¹¹, V. Michael Holers¹² and Jill Norris¹³, ¹Colorado School of Public Health, Monument, CO, ²Colorado School of Public Health Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, ³CSPH, Gaithersburg, CO, ⁴University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, ⁵University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO, ⁶University of Colorado School of Medicine, Littleton, CO, ⁷University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ⁸Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Stanford University; Distinguished Professor of Medicine Emeritus, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ⁹Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle, WA, ¹⁰University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO, ¹¹Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, ¹²University of Colorado, Denver, CO, ¹³Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, CO
Background/Purpose: Lipid mediators are endogenously derived from the metabolism of omega-3 and omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) and have important roles in promoting and resolving…
Abstract Number: 0990 • ACR Convergence 2021
Lower Incidence of COVID-19 but Higher Mortality in Patients with Inflammatory Arthritis Compared to Controls in Wales, United Kingdom: A Population Epidemiological Study
Roxanne Cooksey¹, Mark Atkinson² and Ernest Choy³, ¹Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom, ²Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom, ³CREATE Centre, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused over 3 million deaths. Having inflammatory arthritis (IA) and anti-rheumatic medications increase the risk of infections. Comorbidities, common in…
Abstract Number: 1279 • ACR Convergence 2021
Impact of Active Lupus Nephritis in Patient-Reported Outcomes from a Latin American, Multicenter Lupus Cohort
Romina Nieto¹, Eduardo Ferreira Borba², Eugenia Settecasse³, Diana Fernandez-Avila⁴, Laura Maurelli⁵, Carla Gobbi⁶, Verónica Saurit⁷, Fernando Arizpe⁸, Julieta Daniele⁹, Maria Constanza Bertolaccini¹⁰, Eduardo Kerzberg¹¹, María de los Ángeles Gargiulo¹², Anabella Rodriguez¹³, Ana Carolina Londe¹⁴, Vitalina Sousa Barbosa¹⁵, Andrese Aline Gasparin¹⁶, Carolina Albanez A Cunha Andrade¹⁷, Luciana Parente Costa Seguro¹⁸, Lucas Victoria de Oliveira Martins¹⁹, Oscar Neira²⁰, Carolina Llanos²¹, Loreto Massardo²², Antonio Iglesias²³, Ivana Nieto Aristizábal²⁴, Gloria Vasquez²⁵, Paul Mendez-Patarroyo²⁶, Lizeth de la Hoz Rueda²³, José Martínez Pérez²⁷, Reyna Sánchez Briones²⁸, Mario Pérez Cristóbal²⁹, Eduardo Martin-Nares³⁰, Yaneli Juárez-Vicuña³¹, Yelitza Gonzalez Bello³², Jorge González García³³, Dionicio Galarza-Delgado³⁴, Marcos Vázquez³⁵, Patricia Langjarh³⁵, Magaly Alva Linares³⁶, Cristina Reategui-Sokolova³⁷, Armando Calvo Quirós³⁸, Edral Rodriguez³⁹, Ricardo Robaina⁴⁰, Martín Rebella⁴¹, Graciela Alarcn⁴², Ashley Orillion⁴³, Chetan Karyekar⁴⁴, Federico Zazzetti⁴⁵ and Guillermo Pons-Estel⁴⁶, ¹Hospital Provincial de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina, ²Rheumatology Division, Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, ³Instituto de Investigaciones Teóricas y Aplicadas. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Estadistica. Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina, ⁴Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ⁵Hospital Italiano de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina, ⁶Hospital Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina, ⁷Hospital Privado Universitario de Córdoba, Córdoba, ⁸Hospital HIGA San Martín, La Plata, Argentina, ⁹Sanatorio Británico, Rosario, Argentina, ¹⁰Hospital Padilla, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina, ¹¹Hospital General de Agudos J.M. Ramos Mejía, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ¹²Instituto de Investigaciones Médicas Alfredo Lanari, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ¹³CEMIC, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ¹⁴Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Ciencias Médicas, São Paulo, Brazil, ¹⁵Hospital das Clinicas, Univerisad Federal de Goias, Goias, Brazil, ¹⁶Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil, ¹⁷Universidad Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil, ¹⁸Hospital Das Clinicas da Faculdade de Medicina da USP, São Paulo, Brazil, ¹⁹Universidad Federal São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ²⁰Hospital del Salvador, Santiago, Chile, ²¹Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, ²²Universidad San Sebastián, Santiago, Chile, ²³Clínica de la Costa Ltda., Barranquilla, Colombia, ²⁴Fundación Valle del Lili, Cali, Colombia, ²⁵Division of rheumatology, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia, ²⁶Reumavance Group, Rheumatology section, Department of Internal Medicine, Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá University Hospital; Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, ²⁷Hospital Luis Vernaza, Guayaquil, Ecuador, ²⁸Centro Médico La Raza, Ciudad de México, Mexico, ²⁹Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, Ciudad de México, Mexico, ³⁰Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico, ³¹Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chávez, Ciudad de México, Mexico, ³²Centro de Estudios de investigación Básica y Clínica S.C, Guadalajara, Mexico, ³³Hospital Central Dr. Ignacio Morones Prieto, San Luís Potosí, Mexico, ³⁴Hospital Universitario "Dr Jose E. Gonzalez", Monterrey, Mexico, ³⁵Hospital de Clínicas I, Asunción, Paraguay, ³⁶Hospital Nacional Edgardo Rebagliatti Martins, Lima, Peru, ³⁷Hospital Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen, Lima, Peru, ³⁸Hospital Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru, ³⁹Hospital Docente Padre Billini, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, ⁴⁰Clínica Médica C, Hospital de Clínicas, UDELAR, Montevideo, Uruguay, ⁴¹Unidad de Enfermedades Autoinmunes Sistémicas de Médica Uruguay Corporación de Asistencia Médica (MUCAM); Unidad de Enfermedades Autoinmunes Sistémicas del Hospital de Clínicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay, ⁴²University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁴³Global Commercial Strategic Organisation, Johnson and Johnson, Horsham, PA, ⁴⁴Janssen R&D, Spring House, PA, ⁴⁵Medical Affairs, Jan-Cil Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ⁴⁶Grupo Oroño. Centro Regional de Enfermedades Autoinmunes y Reumaticas (GO-CREAR), Rosario, Argentina
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease characterized by multiple and heterogeneous clinical manifestations that may negatively affect these patients’ quality of life…
Abstract Number: 1775 • ACR Convergence 2021
Isolated Axial versus Concomitant Peripheral Disease in Psoriatic Arthritis
Timothy Kwok¹, Mitchell Sutton², Richard Cook³, Daniel Pereira⁴ and Dafna Gladman⁵, ¹Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Centre for Prognosis Studies in the Rheumatic Diseases, Krembil Research Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Department of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, ⁴University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵Schroeder Arthritis Institute, Krembil Research Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Isolated axial involvement exists in 2 to 5% of all psoriatic arthritis (PsA) patients. However, it is currently unknown whether patients with isolated axial…
Abstract Number: 0259 • ACR Convergence 2021
JIA Diagnoses and Trends from 2006-2019: Has the U.S. ICD-9-to-ICD-10 Transition Created Coding Artifacts?
Daniel Horton¹, Lauren Parlett², Cecilia Huang³, Stephen Crystal⁴, Amy Davidow⁵, Tobias Gerhard⁶, Carlos Rose⁷, Kevin Haynes² and Brian Strom⁸, ¹Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, ²HealthCore, Wilmington, DE, ³Rutgers Institute for Health, New Brunswick, NJ, ⁴Rutgers School of Social Work, New Brunswick, NJ, ⁵Rutgers School of Public Health, New Brunswick, NJ, ⁶Ernst Mario School of Pharmacy, New Brunswick, NJ, ⁷Thomas Jefferson University, Wilmington, DE, ⁸Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, Newark, NJ
Background/Purpose: JIA is the most common rheumatic disease of childhood, but recent data on diagnostic trends in the US are lacking. Furthermore, the impact of…
Abstract Number: 0483 • ACR Convergence 2021
Frequent Use of Prescription Oral NSAIDs Among People with Knee or Hip Osteoarthritis Despite Contraindications to or Precautions with NSAIDs
Tuhina Neogi¹, Andrea Dell'isola², Martin Englund² and Aleksandra Turkiewicz², ¹Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ²Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Background/Purpose: Oral NSAIDs are recommended for OA management. However, many patients with OA have contraindications to NSAIDs or have comorbidities that warrant precaution. Because few…
Abstract Number: 0594 • ACR Convergence 2021
The Burden of Systemic Lupus in Five Distinct Racial and Ethnic Groups in Israel: A Population-based Study
Titilola Falasinnu¹, Nada Rizk¹, Becca Feldman², Devy Zisman³, Michael Leshchinsky², Gabriella Lawrence², Yashaar Chaichian⁴ and Julia Simard¹, ¹Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, ²Clalit Research Institute, Clalit Health Services, Ramat Gan, Israel, ³Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel, ⁴Stanford University, Los Gatos, CA
Background/Purpose: Misclassification of race and ethnicity in data can impact how disparities in prevalence, incidence, severity, and complications of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are interpreted.…
Abstract Number: 0991 • ACR Convergence 2021
Does Diet Affect Gout Risk Differently Among Genetically Predisposed Women?: Prospective Female Cohort Study Findings over 34 Years
Chio Yokose¹, Natalie McCormick², Na Lu³, Amit Joshi² and Hyon K. Choi⁴, ¹Massachusetts General Hospital, Waltham, MA, ²Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Arthritis Research Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ⁴Massachusetts General Hospital, Lexington, MA
Background/Purpose: Gout has long been considered a male disease. However, several recent analyses of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study report a disproportionate worsening…
Abstract Number: 1292 • ACR Convergence 2021
Systemic Lupus Erythematous Readmissions Has Reduced in the Last Decade in the United States: A 9- year Longitudinal Study of the Nationwide Readmission Database
Ehizogie Edigin¹, Precious Eseaton², Chinenye Osuorji³, Ajayi Temitope⁴, Oluwafeyi Adedoyin⁵, Nneka Chukwu⁶ and Augustine Manadan⁷, ¹Internal Medicine, John H Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, IL, ²University of Benin, Benin, Nigeria, ³Internal Medicine, Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine, Las Cruces, NM, ⁴Internal Medicine, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, ⁵Internal Medicine, Englewood Hospital and Medicine Center, Englewood, NJ, ⁶Nuvance Health Internal Medicine Residency, Poughkeepsie, NY, ⁷Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL
Background/Purpose: Longitudinal data on trends of Systemic Lupus Erythematous (SLE) readmissions is scarce. Our study aims to study trends of 30-day readmissions of patients admitted…

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