Abstracts tagged "Epidemiology"

Abstract Number: 1022 • ACR Convergence 2020
Declining In-hospital Mortality Gap in Lupus Compared to Non-lupus Hospitalizations: A National Study
Jasvinder Singh¹ and John Cleveland¹, ¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: Lupus is a serious, multi-system autoimmune disease that affects young people. Mortality is increased by over 2-3 fold compared to the general population. Time-trends…
Abstract Number: 1123 • ACR Convergence 2020
The Patient Journey in Knee OA: Variations in Patient Characteristics and Treatment by Physician Specialty
Angela Bedenbaugh¹, Vinson Lee¹, Gary Oderda², Sarah Kennedy¹, Diana Brixner², Jeyanesh Tambiah³ and Timothy McAlindon⁴, ¹Samumed, LLC, San Diego, CA, ²University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ³Samumed LLC, San Diego, CA, ⁴Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Knee osteoarthritis (OA) affects 32.5 million US adults and is typically treated by primary care physicians, rheumatologists (RH), orthopedists (OS), sports medicine (SM) physicians,…
Abstract Number: 1473 • ACR Convergence 2020
A Combination of Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors Reduce Risk of Incident Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in the Nurses’ Health Studies
May Choi¹, Jill Hahn², Susan Malspeis², Emma Stevens³, Elizabeth Karlson³, Jeffrey Sparks⁴, Kazuki Yoshida⁵, Laura Kubzansky⁶ and Karen Costenbader⁷, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital | Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, ³Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation, and Immunity; Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁵Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁶Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, ⁷Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: While the association between lifestyle factors such as alcohol consumption, smoking, and body mass index (BMI) and risk of SLE have been previously investigated,…
Abstract Number: 1754 • ACR Convergence 2020
The Point of No Return? Functional Disability in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis versus the General Population: Results from a Population-based Cohort Study
Elena Myasoedova¹, John Davis¹, Vanessa Kronzer¹, Rachel Giblon¹, Elizabeth Atkinson¹ and Cynthia Crowson², ¹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA, Rochester, MN
Background/Purpose: Despite the advances in treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), many patients do not achieve remission or full physical functioning. We have previously shown that…
Abstract Number: 0274 • ACR Convergence 2020
The Rising Incidence of Lupus Nephritis: A Population-Based Study of Four Decades
Mehmet Hocaoglu¹, Shirley-Ann Osei-Onomah², Jesse Dabit³, Rachel Giblon³, Thomas O'Byrne³, Fernando C. Fervenza³, Cynthia Crowson⁴ and Ali Duarte-Garcia³, ¹University of Maryland Medical Center Midtown Campus, Baltimore, MD, ²Mayo Clinic, Rochester, ³Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁴Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA, Rochester, MN
Background/Purpose: Estimating the incidence of lupus nephritis (LN) is important to understand disease burden, particularly since patients with LN have a higher morbidity and mortality…
Abstract Number: 0554 • ACR Convergence 2020
Increased Burden of Painful Arthritis and Rheumatism Following the Chikungunya Epidemic 2006: India Rural Population Survey 2018
Arvind Chopra¹, Ravi Ghorpade², Anuradha Venugopalan¹, Manjit Saluja¹ and Kiran Adam¹, ¹Center for Rheumatic Diseases, Pune, India, ²Center for Rheumatic Diseases, Pune
Background/Purpose: A spectrum of post Chikungunya (Chik) arthritis , often RA like, were referred to an urban rheumatology centre (Pune India)during the 2006 epidemic (Arthritis…
Abstract Number: 0815 • ACR Convergence 2020
Initial Pharmaceutical Management in a National Cohort of Elderly-Onset Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients
Deepan Dalal¹, Tingting Zhang², Hiren Varma² and Theresa Shireman², ¹Brown University, East Providence, RI, ²Brown University, Providence, RI
Background/Purpose: Methotrexate is the preferred initial drug for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) per American College of Rheumatology guidelines (2015). People with elderly-onset RA, classified as onset…
Abstract Number: 1023 • ACR Convergence 2020
Epidemiology and Sociodemographic Distribution of Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding Among Medicaid Beneficiaries with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Chang Xu¹, Molly Perencevich², Seoyoung Kim², Karen Costenbader³ and Candace Feldman¹, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Individuals with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have multiple risk factors for upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB), including heightened susceptibility to infection and glucocorticoid, NSAID and…
Abstract Number: 1140 • ACR Convergence 2020
How Did SARS-CoV2/COVID-19 Pandemic Affected Patients with Rheumatic Diseases in Latin America? A Regional Survey from PANLAR
Daniel Fernández-Ávila¹, Julián Barahona-Correa¹, Diana Romero-Alvernia¹, Sergio Kowalski², Ana María Sapag Durán³, Antonio Cachafeiro Vilar⁴, Belia Lucía Meléndez Muñoz⁵, Carlos Santiago Pastelín⁶, Claudia Ramírez⁷, Daniel Palleiro Rivero⁸, Diego Alejandro Jaimes⁹, Dina María Arrieta¹⁰, Guillermo Pons-Estel¹¹, Jossiell Then Báez¹², Manuel Ugarte-Gil¹³, Mario Cardiel¹⁴, Nelly Colman¹⁵, Nilmo Chávez Pérez¹⁶, Paula Burgos¹⁷, Rubén Montufar¹⁸, Sayonara Sandino¹⁹, Yurilis Fuentes-Silva²⁰ and Enrique Soriano²¹, ¹Pontificia Universidad Javeriana - Hospital Universitario San Ignacio, Bogota, Colombia, ²Unidad de Investigación PANLAR. Universidade Federal do Paraná, Paraná, Brazil, ³Hospital Universitario Japonés, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, ⁴Pacífica Salud - Hospital Punta Pacífica,, Ciudad de Panamá, Panama, ⁵Hospital de la Policía Nacional N1 Quito, Quito, Ecuador, ⁶Instituto Hondureño de la Seguridad Social, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, ⁷Organización Keralty, Bogota, ⁸Instituto Nacional de Reumatología del Uruguay - Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay, ⁹Clínicos IPS- Universidad de la Sabana, Bogotá D.C., Colombia, ¹⁰Hospital México, San José de Costa Rica, Costa Rica, ¹¹Centro Regional de Enfermedades Autoinmunes y Reumáticas (GO-CREAR), Rosario, Argentina, ¹²Hospital Metropolitano de Santiago (HOMS), Santiago, Dominican Republic, ¹³Servicio de Reumatología. Hospital Nacional Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen and Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru, ¹⁴Centro de Investigación Clínica de Morelia, Morelia, Mexico, ¹⁵Hospital de Clínicas - Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Asunción, Paraguay, ¹⁶Instituto Guatemalteco de Seguridad Social, Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala, ¹⁷Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile, ¹⁸Consultorio de Especialidades del Instituto Salvadoreño del Seguro Social, San Salvador, El Salvador, ¹⁹Policlínica Nicaragüense, Managua, Nicaragua, ²⁰Centro Clínico Universitario de Oriente - Universidad de Oriente, Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela, ²¹Department of Public Health, Instituto Universitario, Escuela de Medicina Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Rheumatology Unit, Internal Medicine Services, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Capital Federal, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Background/Purpose: Social isolation during SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic has undermined follow-up of patients with rheumatic diseases. These patients face a critical dilemma between the risk of exposure…
Abstract Number: 1475 • ACR Convergence 2020
Predictors of Thirty-Day Hospital Readmissions in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in the US: A Nationwide Study
Rayan Najjar¹, Swetha Ann Alexander², Grant Hughes¹, Jinoos Yazdany³ and Namrata Singh⁴, ¹University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ²University of Connecticut, Hartford, CT, ³UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ⁴University of Washington, Bellevue, WA
Background/Purpose: For individuals with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), hospital readmission rate is associated with quality of care and prognosis. Our objective was to evaluate independent…
Abstract Number: 1841 • ACR Convergence 2020
Outcomes After Hydroxychloroquine Reduction or Discontinuation in a Multinational Inception Cohort of Systemic Lupus
Celline Almeida-Brasil¹, John Hanly², Murray Urowitz³, Ann Clarke⁴, Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman⁵, Caroline Gordon⁶, Michelle Petri⁷, Ellen M Ginzler⁸, Daniel J Wallace⁹, Sang-Cheol Bae¹⁰, Juanita Romero-Diaz¹¹, Mary Ann Dooley¹², Christine A. Peschken¹³, David Isenberg¹⁴, Anisur Rahman¹⁴, Susan Manzi¹⁵, Søren Jacobsen¹⁶, S. Sam Lim¹⁷, Ronald Van Vollenhoven¹⁸, Ola Nived¹⁹, Andreas Jönsen¹⁹, Diane Kamen²⁰, Cynthia Aranow²¹, Guillermo Ruiz-Irastorza²², Jorge Sanchez-Guerrero²³, Dafna Gladman²⁴, Paul Fortin²⁵, Graciela Alarcón²⁶, Joan Merrill²⁷, Kenneth Kalunian²⁸, Manuel Ramos-Casals²⁹, Kristjan Steinsson³⁰, Asad Zoma³¹, Anca Askanase³², Munther Khamashta³³, Ian Bruce³⁴, Murat Inanc³⁵ and Sasha Bernatsky³⁶, ¹McGill University, Montreal, Canada, ²QEII Health Sciences Centre, Halifax, Canada, ³University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ⁶University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, ⁷Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, ⁸SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, ⁹Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Beverly Hills, CA, ¹⁰Department of Rheumatology, Hanyang University Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ¹¹Salvador Zubirán National Institute of Health Sciences and Nutrition, Mexico City, Mexico, ¹²UNC Health, Chapel Hil, ¹³University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, ¹⁴University College London, London, United Kingdom, ¹⁵Temple University, Philadelphia, ¹⁶University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, ¹⁷Emory University, Atlanta, GA, ¹⁸University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ¹⁹Lund University, Lund, Sweden, ²⁰Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ²¹Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, ²²Hospital Universitario Cruces, Bizkaia, Spain, ²³University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, ²⁴Krembil Research Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²⁵CHU de Quebec - Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada, ²⁶Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, The University of Alabama at Birmingham; Department of Medicine, School of Medicine; Universidad Peruana Cayetano, Heredia, Alabama, ²⁷New York University, New York, ²⁸University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, ²⁹University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ³⁰Reykjavik University, Reykjavik, Iceland, ³¹University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, ³²Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, NY, ³³King's College London, London, United Kingdom, ³⁴The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ³⁵Department of Rheumatology, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey, ³⁶The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is a cornerstone treatment for several autoimmune diseases including Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE). Recently, concerns arose regarding HCQ shortages for SLE patients,…
Abstract Number: 2349 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Epidemiology, Risk/Prognostic Factors, and Treatment Landscape in Rheumatoid Arthritis-Associated Interstitial Lung Disease: A Systematic Literature Review
Xue Han¹, Leticia Ferri ¹, Grace Crocket ², Sophie Yoon ³, Tracy Slanger ³ and Mir Sohail Fazeli ³, ¹Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Princeton, NJ, ²Bristol-Myers Squibb; Rutgers University, New York City, NY, ³Doctor Evidence, Santa Monica, CA
Background/Purpose: Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is the most common lung manifestation of RA and the 2nd leading cause of death in RA patients.1,2 The purpose…
Abstract Number: 1098 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Epidemiology and Mortality of SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus) in Hungary Based on a Nationwide Retrospective Claims Database Study
Melinda Kedves¹, Fruzsina Kósa ², Péter Takács ², Péter Kunovszki ², Jennifer Lofland ³ and György Nagy ⁴, ¹Hospital of Bács-Kiskun County, Department of Rheumatology, Kecskemét, Bacs-Kiskun, Hungary, ²Janssen, GCSO, Budapest, Budapest, Hungary, ³Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC, Spring House, PA, ⁴Buda Hospital of the Hospitaller Order of Saint John of God, Department of Rheumatology, Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
Background/Purpose: There is little evidence in Hungary on the real incidence, prevalence and mortality of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) that is based on a robust…
Abstract Number: 1301 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Rates of Incident Radiographic Knee Osteoarthritis and Knee Replacement by Sex and Race, Across Three Large, Diverse Cohorts
C. Kent Kwoh¹, Amanda Nelson ², Yvonne Golightly ³, Erin Ashbeck ⁴, Liubov Arbeeva ⁵, Na Wang ⁶, Jeffrey Duryea ⁷ and Tuhina Neogi ⁶, ¹University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, ²University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ³University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Epidemiology and Thurston Arthritis Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁴The University of Arizona Arthritis Center, University of Arizona, Tuccson, AZ, Tucson, AL, ⁵University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Thurston Arthritis Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁶Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ⁷Harvard Medical School Department of Radiology Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Previous studies have suggested differences in the development of incident radiographic knee osteoarthritis (RKOA) and the receipt of knee replacement (KR) by sex and…
Abstract Number: 2051 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Factors in Achieving Serum Uric Acid Target and the Occurrence of Gouty Arthritis: A Cross-sectional Study Based on Japanese Health Insurance Claim Data
Ruriko Koto¹, Akihiro Nakajima ¹, Hideki Horiuchi ¹ and Hisashi Yamanaka ², ¹Teijin Pharma Limited, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan, ²Sanno Medical Center, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Background/Purpose: The number of gout attacks can be reduced by achieving and maintaining serum uric acid (sUA) at or below 6.0 mg/dL, a level uniformly…

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