Abstracts tagged "Epidemiology"

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…
Abstract Number: 0672 • ACR Convergence 2021
Does Obesity Affect Gout Risk Differently Among Genetically Predisposed Individuals?: Sex-Specific Prospective Cohort Study Findings over >32 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: Two recent analyses of the Global Burden of Disease Study reported on the rising global burden of gout (Safiri A&R 2020, Xia Rheumatology 2020).…
Abstract Number: 1027 • ACR Convergence 2021
Epidemiology of Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Patients with Rheumatic Immune-mediated Diseases: Single University Study of 1117 Patients
David Martinez-Lopez¹, Joy Osorio-Chávez¹, Carmen Álvarez-Reguera¹, Virginia Portilla², Miguel Ángel gonzalez-Gay³ and Ricardo Blanco⁴, ¹Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ²Research group on Genetic Epidemiology and Atherosclerosis in Systemic Diseases and in Metabolic Bone Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System, IDIVAL; Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ³Research group on Genetic Epidemiology and Atherosclerosis in Systemic Diseases and in Metabolic Bone Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System, IDIVAL, Division of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla; School of Medicine, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain. Cardiovascular Pathophysiology and Genomics Research Unit, School of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, ⁴Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain
Background/Purpose: Background: Patients with rheumatologic immune-mediated diseases (R-IMID) with Latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) requiring biologic therapy (BT) are at an increased risk of active tuberculosis…
Abstract Number: 1393 • ACR Convergence 2021
All-cause Mortality in a Hospital Ascertained Cohort with Giant Cell Arteritis: A Longitudinal Population-level Data Linkage Cohort Study
Helen Keen¹, Warren Raymond², Susan Lester³, David Preen², Charles Inderjeeth⁴, Catherine Hill⁵ and Johannes Nossent², ¹University of Western Australia, Daglish, Australia, ²University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, ³Rheumatology Department, The Basil Hetzel Institute, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, Australia, ⁴University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Perth, Australia, ⁵Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville, Australia
Background/Purpose: Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA) is the most common primary vasculitis in high income countries and ischemic complications of GCA include blindness and stroke. The…
Abstract Number: 1923 • ACR Convergence 2021
Has the Incidence of Total Joint Arthroplasty in Rheumatoid Arthritis Decreased in the Era of Biologics Use? A Population-based Incident Cohort Study 1995–2015
Vivienne Zhou¹, Diane Lacaille¹, Na Lu², Jacek Kopec³, Don Garbuz¹, Yi Qian⁴, J. Antonio Avina-Zubieta¹, John Esdaile² and Hui Xie¹, ¹Arthritis Research Canada, Richmond, BC, Canada, ²Arthritis Research Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ³University of British Columbia, Richmond, BC, Canada, ⁴University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Background/Purpose: Total joint arthroplasty (TJA) is an undesirable long-term outcome of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) due to joint damage from uncontrolled inflammation. Although biological disease-modifying anti-rheumatic…
Abstract Number: 0086 • ACR Convergence 2021
SARS-CoV-2 Infection and COVID-19 Outcomes in Rheumatic Disease: A Systematic Literature Review
Richard Conway¹, Alyssa Grimshaw², Maximilian Konig³, Michael Putman⁴, Ali Duarte-Garcia⁵, Candice Low⁶, Shangyi Jin⁷, Diego Cabrera⁸, Yu Pei Eugenia Chock⁹, Berk Degirmenci¹⁰, Eimear Duff¹¹, Bugra Egeli¹², Elizabeth Graef¹³, Akash Gupta¹⁴, Patricia Harkins¹⁵, Bimba Franziska Hoyer¹⁶, Aruni Jayatilleke¹⁷, Christopher Kasia¹⁸, Aneka Khilnani¹⁹, Adam Kilian²⁰, Alfred Kim²¹, Chung Mun Alice Lin²², Laurie Proulx²³, Sebastian Sattui²⁴, Namrata Singh²⁵, Jeffrey Sparks²⁶, Herman Tam²⁷, Leslie Yingzhijie Tseng², Manuel Ugarte-Gil²⁸, Natasha Ung²⁹, Leanna Wise³⁰, Ziyi Yang³¹, Kristen Young³², Jean Liew³³, Rebecca Grainger³⁴, Zachary Wallace³⁵ and Evelyn Hsieh², ¹St. James's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, ²Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, ³The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁴Medical College of Wisconsin, Brookfield, WI, ⁵Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁶St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, ⁷Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College; National Clinical Research Center for Dermatologic and Immunologic Diseases (NCRC-DID), Beijing, China (People's Republic), ⁸Yale School of Medicine, Lima, Peru, ⁹Yale School of Medicine, Greenwich, CT, ¹⁰St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, Boston, MA, ¹¹St. James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, ¹²Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, ¹³Emerson Hospital, Concord, MA, ¹⁴Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, ¹⁵St James hospital, Dublin, Ireland, ¹⁶Universittsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany, ¹⁷Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, ¹⁸The Medical College of Wisconsin, Maywood, IL, ¹⁹George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, ²⁰George Washington University, Melbourne, FL, ²¹Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, ²²Newcastle University, Newcastle, United Kingdom, ²³Canadian Arthritis Patient Alliance, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ²⁴Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ²⁵University of Washington, Bellevue, WA, ²⁶Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²⁷Stollery Children's Hospital, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ²⁸Hospital Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen, Essalud/Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru, ²⁹New South Wales Health, Sydney, Australia, ³⁰LAC+USC/Keck Medicine of USC, Pasadena, CA, ³¹Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College; National Clinical Research Center for Dermatologic and Immunologic Diseases (NCRC-DID), Beijing 100730, China, Beijing, China (People's Republic), ³²University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ³³Boston University, Boston, MA, ³⁴University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand, ³⁵Massachusetts General Hospital, Newton, MA
Background/Purpose: The relative risk of COVID-19 among patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal disease (RMD) and the comparative severity of COVID-19 infection in RMD remain uncertain.…
Abstract Number: 0332 • ACR Convergence 2021
Prevalence of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in the United States: Updated Population Representative Estimates from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) 2016-2018
Michael Pollack¹, Sandra Sze-jung Wu¹, Eilleen Farrelly², Shannon Grabich³ and Robert Ortmann⁴, ¹AstraZeneca, Wilmington, DE, ²Xcenda, Carrollton, TX, ³Xcenda, Durham, NC, ⁴AstraZeneca, Greenwood, IN
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic, multi-organ, autoimmune disease whose prevalence in the US has not been recently updated in real-world studies. Prevalence…

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