Abstracts tagged "Epidemiology"

Abstract Number: 0587 • ACR Convergence 2021
DMARD Use in Medicare Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Risk of Long-Term Opioid Use
Akhil Sood¹, Yong-Fang Kuo², Jordan Westra² and Mukaila Raji², ¹University of Texas Medical Branch, League City, TX, ²University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
Background/Purpose: Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are at increased risk for opioid use. Disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) have led to better control of disease activity.…
Abstract Number: 0959 • ACR Convergence 2021
Impact of Systemic Lupus Disease Activity State on Flare Risk After Hydroxychloroquine Maintenance, Reduction or Discontinuation in a Multinational Inception Cohort
Celline Brasil¹, John Hanly², Murray Urowitz³, Ann Clarke⁴, Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman⁵, Caroline Gordon⁶, Michelle Petri⁷, Ellen Ginzler⁸, Daniel Wallace⁹, Sang-Cheol Bae¹⁰, Juanita Romero-Diaz¹¹, Mary Anne Dooley¹², Christine Peschken¹³, David Isenberg¹⁴, Anisur Rahman¹⁵, Susan Manzi¹⁶, Soren Jacobsen¹⁷, S Sam Lim¹⁸, Ronald F van Vollenhoven¹⁹, Ola Nived²⁰, Andreas Jnsen²⁰, Diane Kamen²¹, Cynthia Aranow²², Guillermo Ruiz-Irastorza²³, Jorge Sanchez-Guerrero²⁴, Dafna Gladman²⁵, Paul R Fortin²⁶, Graciela Alarcn²⁷, Joan Merrill²⁸, Kenneth Kalunian²⁹, Manuel Ramos-Casals³⁰, Kristjan Steinsson³¹, Asad Zoma³², Anca Askanase³³, Munther Khamashta³⁴, Ian N. Bruce³⁵, Murat Inanc³⁶ and Sasha Bernatsky³⁷, ¹Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada, ²Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, ³Center for Prognosis Studies in the Rheumatic Diseases, Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto, Lupus Clinic, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ⁵Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ⁶Rheumatology Research Group, Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, ⁷Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁸SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, NY, ⁹Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, CA, ¹⁰Hanyang University Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ¹¹Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran, Ciudad de México, Federal District, Mexico, ¹²Raleigh Neurology Associates, Chapel Hill, NC, ¹³University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ¹⁴Centre for Rheumatology, University College London, London, United Kingdom, ¹⁵University College London, London, United Kingdom, ¹⁶Allegheny Health Network, Wexford, PA, ¹⁷Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark, ¹⁸Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, ¹⁹Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Rheumatology and Immunology Center ARC, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ²⁰Lund University, Lund, Sweden, ²¹Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ²²Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, ²³Hospital Universitario Cruces, University of the Basque Country, Bizkaia, Spain, ²⁴University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²⁵Schroeder Arthritis Institute, Krembil Research Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²⁶CHU de Quebec - Universite Laval, Québec City, QC, Canada, ²⁷University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²⁸Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ²⁹UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, ³⁰Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ³¹National University Hospital of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, ³²University of Glasgow, East Kilbride, United Kingdom, ³³Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, ³⁴King's College London, London, United Kingdom, ³⁵University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ³⁶Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ³⁷McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
Background/Purpose: Physicians and patients often consider reducing or discontinuing hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) among SLE patients in remission or very low disease activity to limit HCQ-induced toxicity.…
Abstract Number: 1097 • ACR Convergence 2021
Gastrointestinal Malignancies in Sarcoidosis: A Nationwide Analysis
Rawish Fatima, Ashu Acharya, Saffa Iftikhar and Joan N Gekonde, University of Toledo Medical Center, Toledo, OH
Background/Purpose: Sarcoidosis is a multisystem disorder that can involve any organ system. It can involve organs like the lungs, skin, eyes, nose, muscles, heart, liver,…
Abstract Number: 1670 • ACR Convergence 2021
Increased Prevalence of Gastroesophageal Disease Among Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Patompong Ungprasert¹, Nipith Charoenngam², Ben Ponvilawan³, Pitchaporn Yingchoncharoen³ and Jerapas Thongpiya⁴, ¹Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland Heights, OH, ²Mount Auburn Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, ⁴Mahdiol University, Bangkok, Thailand
Background/Purpose: Recent experimental studies have suggested that systemic inflammatory response could lead to impairment of lower esophageal function, resulting in gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). Epidemiologic…
Abstract Number: 0116 • ACR Convergence 2021
COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Side Effects Among Individuals with Rheumatic Disease
Kaleb Michaud¹, Adam Cornish², Alison Freifeld¹, Patricia Katz³ and Kristin Wipfler², ¹University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ²FORWARD, The National Databank for Rheumatic Diseases, Omaha, NE, ³University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Over 135 million Americans were fully vaccinated to COVID-19 by June 2021, yet there was a paucity of data on side effects for those…
Abstract Number: 0479 • ACR Convergence 2021
A Novel Semi-automated Classifier of Radiographic Hip Osteoarthritis on DXA Scans Is Strongly Predictive of Pain, Clinical Diagnosis and Joint Replacement: Findings from 40,000 Participants in UK Biobank
Benjamin Faber¹, Raja Ebsim², Fiona Saunders³, Monika Frysz¹, Claudia Lindner², Jennifer Gregory³, Richard Aspden³, Nicholas Harvey⁴, George Davey Smith¹, Timothy Cootes² and Jon Tobias¹, ¹University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, ²University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ³University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, ⁴University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Radiographic hip osteoarthritis (rHOA) is traditionally defined on hip or pelvic radiographs, using subjective methods such as Kellgren-Lawrence scoring. Associations between subjective rHOA measures…
Abstract Number: 0588 • ACR Convergence 2021
Effectiveness of TNFi versus Non-TNFi Biologics on Disease Activity in Obese Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: Data from the ACR’s RISE Registry
Milena Gianfrancesco¹, Jing Li¹, Clairissa Ja², Andrea Seet¹, Gabriela Schmajuk¹ and Jinoos Yazdany¹, ¹University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²UC Davis, San Francisco
Background/Purpose: Our understanding of how medications such as biologic disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs and targeted small molecules (b/tsDMARDs) influence disease activity in RA is based…
Abstract Number: 0976 • ACR Convergence 2021
Cumulative Social Disadvantage Predicts an Arthritis Diagnosis: A Cross-sectional Analysis of the National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH)
William Soulsby, Erica Lawson and Matthew Pantell, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: The impact of social determinants of health in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) remains poorly understood. Racial disparities exist in JIA, including increased pain and…
Abstract Number: 1121 • ACR Convergence 2021
Association of Healthcare Costs and Utilization with Increasing Severity of Pain in Osteoarthritis Patients: An 18-Year Retrospective Study
Jove Graham¹, Tonia Novosat¹, Haiyan Sun¹, Brian Piper¹, Joseph Boscarino¹, Melissa Kern¹, Vanessa Duboski¹, Eric Wright¹, Craig Beck², Rebecca Robinson³, Edward Casey⁴, Jerry A. Hall³ and Patricia Schepman⁴, ¹Geisinger, Danville, PA, ²Pfizer, Inc., London, ³Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN, ⁴Pfizer, Inc., New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a disease with complex pathogenesis, and it is important to understand a patient's level of severity in order to plan and…
Abstract Number: 1712 • ACR Convergence 2021
Adverse Outcomes and Rehospitalization After Delivery Among Women with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus or Rheumatoid Arthritis and Their Infants
Julianna Sabo¹, Namrata Singh², Deborah Crane¹, David Doody³, Melissa Schiff⁴ and Beth Mueller⁵, ¹University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ²University of Washington, Bellevue, WA, ³Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, ⁴University of Washington, University of New Mexico, Seattle, WA, ⁵Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: Women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have greater risk of adverse obstetric and birth outcomes than women without these conditions.…
Abstract Number: L02 • ACR Convergence 2020
Risk Mitigating Behavior in People with Rheumatic Diseases or Psoriasis During the COVID-19 Pandemic Differ by Immunosuppressant Treatment Type: A Patient survey Study
Mark Yates¹, Satveer Mahil¹, Sinead Langan², Claudia De la cruz³, Paola diMeglio¹, Nick Dand¹, Zenas Yiu⁴, Kayleigh Mason⁴, Teresa Tsakok¹, Freya Meynall⁵, Helen McAteer⁶, John Weinman¹, Paolo Gisondi⁷, Luis Puig Sanz⁸, Richard Warren⁴, Francesca Capon¹, Jullien Denis⁹, Tiago Torres¹⁰, Chris Griffiths⁴, Jonathan Barker¹, Kimme Hyrich⁴, Andrew Cope¹, Ian Bruce⁴, Iain McInnes¹¹, Raj Sengupta¹², Helena Marzo-Ortega¹³, Matthew Brown¹, James Galloway¹ and Catherine Smith¹, ¹King's College London, London, United Kingdom, ²London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, ³University of Santiago, Santiago, Chile, ⁴University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ⁵Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom, ⁶Psoriasis Association, London, United Kingdom, ⁷University of Verona, Verona, Italy, ⁸Hospital de la Santa Creu I Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain, ⁹Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France, ¹⁰University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, ¹¹University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, ¹²Royal United Hospitals Bath, Bath, United Kingdom, ¹³University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Clinician-reported registry data suggest that use of biologics in people with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) is associated with a lower risk of adverse COVID-19…
Abstract Number: 0007 • ACR Convergence 2020
Antimalarial Drug Shortages During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results from the Global Rheumatology Alliance Patient Experience Survey
Emily Sirotich¹, Kevin Kennedy², Salman Surangiwala³, Teresa Semalulu¹, Maggie Larche¹, Jean Liew⁴, Zachary Wallace⁵, Philip Robinson⁶, Rebecca Grainger⁷, Jeffrey Sparks⁸, Julia Simard⁹, Jinoos Yazdany¹⁰, Monique Gore-Massy¹¹, Richard Howard¹², Mitchell Levine² and Jonathan Hausmann¹³, ¹McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ²McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, ³Queen’s School of Medicine, Kingston, Canada, ⁴University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ⁵Massachusetts General Hospital, Newton, MA, ⁶University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland, Australia, ⁷University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand, ⁸Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation, and Immunity; Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁹Stanford Medicine, Stanford, CA, ¹⁰UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ¹¹Lupus Foundation of America, Brooklyn, NY, ¹²Spondylitis Association of America, Van Nuys, CA, ¹³Boston Children's Hospital / Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Cambridge, MA
Background/Purpose: Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine were empirically promoted and used for treatment and prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infection. The repurposing of these…
Abstract Number: 0392 • ACR Convergence 2020
Prevalence and Survival of Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) and Associated Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) in Ontario, Canada over 10 Years
Janet Pope¹, Kobina Quansah², Martin Kolb³, Jason Flavin⁴, Hassan Shazia⁵ and Soo Jin Seung⁵, ¹Department of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, St. Joseph's Health Centre, London, ON, Canada, ²Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) Limited, Burlington, ON, Canada, ³McMaster University and Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health, St Joseph's Healthcare, Hamliton, ON, Canada, ⁴Boehringer Ingelheim, Corporate Headquarters, Burlington, ON, Canada, ⁵HOPE Research Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune disease characterized by skin thickening, vascular lesions and fibrotic changes in various organs, mainly the lungs, heart, intestinal…
Abstract Number: 0562 • ACR Convergence 2020
The Relationship Between Heart Disease Risk Profile and Osteoarthritis, Overall and by Multi-/Single-Joint Involvement
Anthony Perruccio¹, Shatabdy Zahid², Calvin Yip³, J Denise Power², Mayilee Canizares², George Heckman⁴ and Elizabeth Badley¹, ¹Krembil Research Institute, UHN; University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Osteoarthritis (OA) and heart disease (HD) are among the most common chronic conditions. Several studies have shown that OA increases the risk of HD…
Abstract Number: 0982 • ACR Convergence 2020
Genetics of Avascular Necrosis in Children and Adults with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Declan Webber¹, JingJing Cao², Daniela Dominguez³, Dafna Gladman⁴, Andrea Knight⁵, Deborah Levy¹, Lawrence Ng⁶, Andrew Paterson², Zahi Touma⁷, Murray Urowitz⁸, Joan Wither⁹, Earl D. Silverman¹⁰ and Linda Hiraki¹¹, ¹Division of Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Genetics & Genome Biology, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada, ³Division of Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada, ⁴Krembil Research Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children and Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁶Division of Rheumatology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada, ⁷University of Toronto Lupus Clinic, Centre for Prognosis Studies in Rheumatic Diseases, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network; Krembil Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁸University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁹University of Toronto Lupus Clinic, Centre for Prognosis Studies in Rheumatic Diseases, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹⁰Division of Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Translational Medicine, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, and Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto., Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹¹Division of Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Child Health Evaluative Sciences, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, and Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto., Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Genetics have been shown to contribute to risk of avascular necrosis (AVN), a debilitating complication of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Our aim was to…

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