Abstracts tagged "Epidemiology"

Abstract Number: 1787 • ACR Convergence 2021
What Is Peripheral SpondyloArthritis? Identifying Disease Phenotype and Burden: A Post Hoc Analysis of the ASAS-PerSpA International Study
Nelly Ziade¹, Joe Rassi², Bassel Elzorkany³, Clementina López Medina⁴, Sherif Gamal³, Sani Hlais⁵, Maxime Dougados⁶ and Xenofon Baraliakos⁷, ¹Rheumatology Department, Saint-Joseph Medical University and Hotel-Dieu de France Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon, ²Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Hotel-Dieu de France, Faculty of Medicine, Saint-Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon, ³Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, Cairo, Egypt, ⁴Department of Rheumatology, Reina Sofia Hospital, IMIBIC, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain/ Department of Rheumatology, University of Paris, Cochin Hospital, Paris, France, ⁵Department of Family Medicine, American University of Beirut/ Saint-Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon, ⁶Université de Paris . Department of Rheumatology - Hôpital Cochin. Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris . INSERM (U1153): Clinical epidemiology and biostatistics, PRES Sorbonne Paris-Cité. Paris, France., Paris, France, ⁷Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet Herne, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Herne, Germany
Background/Purpose: Peripheral spondyloarthritis (pSpA) shows features that overlap with psoriatic arthritis (PsA), axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) and other forms of SpA and is unsatisfactorily defined despite…
Abstract Number: 0263 • ACR Convergence 2021
Patterns of Medication Switching in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: A Retrospective Analysis of a National Administrative Claims Database
Mei-Sing Ong¹, Sarah Ringold², Melissa Mannion³, Marc Natter⁴, Laura Schanberg⁵ and Yukiko Kimura⁶, ¹Harvard Medical School & Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Institute, Boston, MA, ²Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, ³University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁴Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁵Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, ⁶Hackensack University Medical Center, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Although the increasing availability of biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (bDMARDs) and targeted synthetic DMARDs (tsDMARDs) has significantly improved outcomes for patients with Juvenile Idiopathic…
Abstract Number: 0562 • ACR Convergence 2021
Inpatient Epidemiology and Resource Utilization of Ankylosing Spondylitis: National Inpatient Sample 2018
Patompong Ungprasert¹, Thanat Chaikijurajai², Karn Wijarnpreecha³ and Paul Kroner³, ¹Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland Heights, OH, ²Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ³Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL
Background/Purpose: Little is known about inpatient epidemiology, economic burden and resource utilization of patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS). The current study aims to describe those…
Abstract Number: 0596 • ACR Convergence 2021
Racial Disparities in US Adults with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Prevalence, Quality of Life, Comorbidities and Healthcare Costs
Shannon Grabich¹, Cullen Seal², Robert Ortmann³ and Sandra Sze-jung Wu⁴, ¹Xcenda, Durham, NC, ²Xcenda, Carrollton, TX, ³AstraZeneca, Greenwood, IN, ⁴AstraZeneca, Wilmington, DE
Background/Purpose: SLE is a chronic, multisystem autoimmune disease characterized by reoccurring flares and remissions. It is more common among Asian, Black, and Hispanic populations. Racial…
Abstract Number: 1022 • ACR Convergence 2021
Incidence of Antisynthetase Syndrome and Risk of Malignancy in a Population-based Cohort (1998-2019)
Caitrin Coffey¹, Li Wang¹, Stephanie Duong¹, Cassondra Hulshizer¹, Cynthia Crowson², Jay Ryu¹ and Floranne Ernste¹, ¹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Mayo Clinic, Eyota, MN
Background/Purpose: The antisynthetase syndrome (ASSD) is a distinct subgroup of the idiopathic inflammatory myopathies characterized by myositis, interstitial lung disease, inflammatory arthritis, Raynaud’s phenomenon and…
Abstract Number: 1304 • ACR Convergence 2021
Increased Risk of Vertebral Fracture Among Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Patompong Ungprasert¹, Nipith Charoenngam², Ben Ponvilawan³, Jerapas Thongpiya⁴ and Pitchaporn Yingchoncharoen³, ¹Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland Heights, OH, ²Mount Auburn Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, ⁴Mahdiol University, Bangkok, Thailand
Background/Purpose: Increased risk of vertebral fracture (VF) has been documented in several autoimmune diseases as a result of excessive inflammatory burden and use of corticosteroids.…
Abstract Number: 1865 • ACR Convergence 2021
Incidence, Prevalence, and Mortality of Chronic Periaortitis: A Population-based Study
Umar Ghaffar¹, Kenneth Warrington², Stephanie Duong¹, Cynthia Crowson³, Michelle Burke¹, Boyd Viers¹, Aaron Potretzke¹, Haraldur Bjarnason¹ and Matthew Koster¹, ¹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, ³Mayo Clinic, Eyota, MN
Background/Purpose: Chronic periaortitis is an inflammatory condition that typically involves the infrarenal portion of the abdominal aorta. To date, no epidemiologic studies have been performed…
Abstract Number: 0295 • ACR Convergence 2021
Weight History and Associations with Cardiovascular Risk in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Lydia Federico¹, Kaleb Michaud², Kristin Wipfler³, Gulsen Ozen⁴ and Joshua Baker¹, ¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ³FORWARD, The National Databank for Rheumatic Diseases, Omaha, NE, ⁴University of Nebraska Medical Center, Bellevue, NE
Background/Purpose: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but traditional CVD risk factors may not accurately characterize risk. For…
Abstract Number: 0563 • ACR Convergence 2021
Validating the FRAX Score in a US Population-Based Study of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Madeline Peterson¹, Cynthia Crowson², Elena Myasoedova¹, Shreyasee Amin¹, John Davis¹, Sara Achenbach¹, Sundeep Kholsa¹ and Elizabeth Atkinson¹, ¹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Mayo Clinic, Eyota, MN
Background/Purpose: The FRAX tool, launched by the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre at the University of Sheffield in 2008 (https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/FRAX/), is widely used to quickly…
Abstract Number: 0617 • ACR Convergence 2021
Concerns and Beliefs About COVID-19 Vaccination Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Patients with Rheumatic Disease
Maria I. Danila, Lesley Jackson, Amy Mudano, Giovanna Rosas, Jeanne Merchant, Jeffrey Foster and Kenneth Saag, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: Alabama lags behind many other states in COVID-19 vaccination uptake and racial/ethnic minority groups face COVID-19 vaccine access disparities. Moreover, lack of vaccination access…
Abstract Number: 1023 • ACR Convergence 2021
Racial and Ethnic Distribution of Rheumatic Diseases in Health Systems of the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network
William Nowell¹, Edward L. Barnes², Nupur Parikh¹, Shilpa Venkatachalam¹, Michael Kappelman², Jeffrey Curtis³, Peter Merkel⁴, Dianne Shaw⁵, Kalen Young⁵ and Michael George⁴, ¹Global Healthy Living Foundation, Upper Nyack, NY, ²University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ³Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁴University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁵Vasculitis Foundation, Kansas City, MO
Background/Purpose: Ensuring adequate representation of racial/ethnic minorities in research necessitates understanding the prevalence of rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases in these populations. We sought to evaluate…
Abstract Number: 1326 • ACR Convergence 2021
Epidemiology of Comorbidities in an Incident Psoriasis Cohort: A Population-Based Study
Paras Karmacharya¹, Rikesh Chakradhar², Alexis Ogdie³, John Davis², Kerry Wright², Megha M. Tollefson², Ali Duarte-Garcia², Delamo Bekele², Hilal Maradit Kremers², Floranne Ernste², Tina Gunderson², Cassondra Hulshizer² and Cynthia Crowson⁴, ¹Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN; Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, ²Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ³University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴Mayo Clinic, Eyota, MN
Background/Purpose: Psoriasis, a chronic immune-mediated skin disease affecting 2-4% of the US population, is increasingly recognized as a systemic inflammatory disorder associated with cardiometabolic and…
Abstract Number: 1903 • ACR Convergence 2021
Does Limited Stair Climbing Lead to Poor Future Health? The Relationship Between Short-term Trajectories of Stair Climbing Frequency and Incident Slow Gait Speed over 1 and 2 Years in Adults with Knee Osteoarthritis
Jason Jakiela¹, Yuqing Zhang², Dana Voinier¹, Thomas Bye¹, Jennifer Copson¹ and Daniel White¹, ¹University of Delaware, Newark, DE, ²Massachusetts General Hospital, Quincy, MA
Background/Purpose: Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a common cause of functional limitation in older adults, and difficulty with climbing stairs is one of the first limitations…
Abstract Number: 0329 • ACR Convergence 2021
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Risk of End-Organ Disease Following SLE Diagnosis in a Multi-Ethnic Cohort
ALFREDO AGUIRRE¹, Andrea Seet¹, Laura Trupin², Patricia Katz¹, Kamil Barbour³, Cristina Lanata⁴, Maria Dall'Era⁵ and Jinoos Yazdany¹, ¹University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²UC San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ³Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA, ⁴University of California San Francisco, Moss Beach, CA, ⁵University of California San Francisco, Corte Madera, CA
Background/Purpose: Racial and ethnic minorities experience a disproportionate burden of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) as well as earlier development of lupus manifestations as compared to…
Abstract Number: 0564 • ACR Convergence 2021
Associations of Sinusitis, Pharyngitis, and Respiratory Tract Disease Burden with Incident Rheumatoid Arthritis
Vanessa Kronzer¹, Weixing Huang², Alessandra Zaccardelli², Cynthia Crowson³, John Davis¹, Robert Vassallo¹, Tracy Doyle⁴, Elena Losina² and Jeffrey Sparks², ¹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Mayo Clinic, Eyota, MN, ⁴Brigham and Women's Hospital, West Roxbury, MA
Background/Purpose: Increasing evidence implicates respiratory mucosa in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, individual respiratory tract diseases, especially of the upper airways, sinuses, and…

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