Abstracts tagged "Epidemiology"

Abstract Number: 1556 • ACR Convergence 2021
Mortality Rate Related to COVID-19 in Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases (RMDs)
Ines Perez - Sancristobal¹, Dalifer Freites¹, Leticia Lopez Pedraza², Maria Paula Alvarez Hernandez¹, Jose Ignacio Colomer³, Alfredo Madrid - Garcia², Benjamin Fernandez¹, Cristina Vadillo¹, Luis Rodriguez Rodriguez⁴, Arkaitz Mucientes², Leticia Leon - Mateos² and Lydia Abasolo⁵, ¹Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Reumathology, Madrid, Madrid, Spain, ²Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Reumathology, Madrid, Spain, ³Fundación para la Investigación Biomedica, Reumathology, Madrid, Spain, ⁴Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain, ⁵Rheumatology Department, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain
Background/Purpose: In patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) and infected with Covid – 19, a) we want to assess the mortality rate (MR) related…
Abstract Number: 0096 • ACR Convergence 2021
The True Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in an Italian Cohort of Patients with Inflammatory Arthritis: A Seroepidemiological Study
Gabriella Maioli¹, Ennio Giulio Favalli², Elisa Pesce³, Martina Biggioggero², Mauro Bombaci³, Elena Agape², Martina Martinovic³, Tanya Fabbris³, Elena Zagato³, Andrea Favalli³, Andrea Gobbini³, Sergio Abrignani³, Renata Grifantini³ and Roberto Caporali⁴, ¹Università degli Studi di Milano, Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, Research Center for Adult and Pediatric Rheumatic Diseases, Milan, Italy, Milan, Italy, ²ASST Gaetano Pini-CTO Institute, Division of Clinical Rheumatology, Milan, Italy, Milan, Italy, ³Istituto Nazionale Genetica Molecolare, Padiglione Romeo ed Enrica Invernizzi, Milan, Italy, ⁴Policlinico S. Matteo University, Pavia, Italy
Background/Purpose: Observational data have shown that rheumatic patients seem not to be more susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection neither to worse outcomes. However, the true prevalence…
Abstract Number: 0377 • ACR Convergence 2021
The Prevalence of Inflammatory Back Pain and HLA-B27 in a Large Population-Based Cohort in the Netherlands
Stan Kieskamp, Suzanne Arends, Elisabeth Brouwer, Hendrika Bootsma, Ilja Nolte and Anneke Spoorenberg, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Chronic low back pain (CLBP; back pain >3 months) with onset at age < 45 and inflammatory back pain (IBP) are regarded as early…
Abstract Number: 0574 • ACR Convergence 2021
Prevalence and Early Progression of Lung Diseases in Patients with Recently-Diagnosed Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Prospective Cohort Study
Tina Mahajan¹, Daniel Hershberger¹, Matt Devries², Punyasha Roul¹, Yangyuna Yang¹, Sherrie Edwards¹, Geoffrey Thiele¹, Ted Mikuls¹, James O'Dell¹ and Bryant England¹, ¹University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ²University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha
Background/Purpose: Several types of lung diseases complicate the rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease course such as interstitial lung disease (ILD) and obstructive lung diseases. The prevalence…
Abstract Number: 0795 • ACR Convergence 2021
Treatment Response and Several Patient-reported Outcomes Are Early Determinants of Future Self-efficacy in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Michal Doumen¹, Diederik De Cock¹, Sofia Pazmino¹, Delphine Bertrand¹, Rene Westhovens² and Patrick Verschueren³, ¹KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, ²University Hospitals KU Leuven, Maaseik, Belgium, ³University Hospitals Leuven - KULeuven, Leuven, Belgium
Background/Purpose: Self-efficacy (SE), or patients’ confidence in their ability to control disease and its consequences, was recently prioritised in EULAR-recommendations for self-management strategies for inflammatory…
Abstract Number: 1046 • ACR Convergence 2021
Risk of Ocular Comorbidities and Blindness Among Patients with Behçet’s Disease: A Nationwide Population-based Cohort Study in Korea
SE RIM CHOI¹, Anna Shin², Joo Young Shin³, Hokyung Choung³, You-Jung Ha², Yun Jong Lee⁴, Eun bong Lee¹, Jin Kyun Park¹ and Eun Ha Kang², ¹Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ²Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Republic of Korea, ³Department of Ophthalmology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, SMG-SNU Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ⁴Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam-si, Republic of Korea
Background/Purpose: To examine the risk of ocular comorbidities in a nation-wide cohort of patients with Behçet’s disease (BD) compared to general population in Korea.Methods: We…
Abstract Number: 1579 • ACR Convergence 2021
Phenome-Wide Association of Gout Risk Loci
Oleg Stens¹, Vivian Trang², Steven Cao², Robert Terkeltaub¹ and Rany Salem², ¹University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA, ²University of California San Diego School of Public Health, La Jolla, CA
Background/Purpose: Gout is a complex disease involving changes in urate biology and inflammatory responses, and is associated with comorbidities including metabolic syndrome and cardiorenal disease.…
Abstract Number: 0097 • ACR Convergence 2021
Outcome of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Under Treatment with Janus Kinase Inhibitors Compared to Tumour Necrosis Factor Inhibitors
Rebecca Hasseli¹, Bimba Franziska Hoyer², Hanns-Martin Lorenz³, Alexander Pfeil⁴, Anne Regierer⁵, Jutta Richter⁶, Tim Schmeiser⁷, Anja Strangfeld⁸, Reinhard Voll⁹, Andreas Krause¹⁰, Hendrik Schulze-Koops¹¹, Christof Specker¹² and Ulf Müller-Ladner¹³, ¹Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Bad Nauheim, Germany, ²Universittsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany, ³University Hospital Heidelberg Germany, Heidelberg, Germany, ⁴Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany, ⁵German Rheumatism Research Center, Berlin, Germany, ⁶Rheumatology and Hiller Research Unit, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Medical Faculty, Duesseldorf, Germany, ⁷Private Practice, Cologne, Germany, ⁸Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ⁹Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, ¹⁰Immanuel Hospital, Berlin, Germany, ¹¹Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine IV, University of Munich, Munich, Germany, ¹²Evangelisches Krankenhaus, Kliniken Essen-Mitte, Essen, Germany, ¹³JLU Giessen, Campus Kerckhoff, Dept. Rheum & Clin Immunol, Bad Nauheim, Germany
Background/Purpose: Janus kinase inhibitors (JAK-i) offer a potent mode of action to treat rheumatic diseases. Little is known on the course and outcome of SARS-CoV-2…
Abstract Number: 0381 • ACR Convergence 2021
How Do Clinical and Socioeconomic Factors Impact on Work Disability in Early Axial Spondyloarthritis? Five-year Data from the DESIR Cohort
Elena Nikiphorou¹, Annelies Boonen², Bruno Fautrel³, Pascal Richette⁴, Robert Landewé⁵, Désirée van der Heijde⁶ and Sofia Ramiro¹, ¹Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ²Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Maastricht University Medical Centre+ (MUMC+), Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands, ³Pitié Salpêtrière Hospital, APHP, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, ⁴Lariboisiere Hospital, Paris, France, ⁵Amsterdam Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Zuyderland MC, Heerlen, Netherlands, ⁶Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Meerssen, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: There remains substantial unmet need to study work disability (WD) in early axSpA. Previous studies suggest that treatment interventions alone do not improve work…
Abstract Number: 0575 • ACR Convergence 2021
World Mortality of Spondyloarthritis and Inflammatory Bowel Diseases in 2015 and Its Evolution Between 2001 and 2015
Olivier Fakih, Clement Prati, Daniel Wendling and Frank Verhoeven, Service de rhumatologie, CHU de Besançon, Besançon, France
Background/Purpose: There is little epidemiological data on mortality in spondyloarthritis (SpA). This study aimed to determine countries’ mortality rates of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and psoriatic…
Abstract Number: 0811 • ACR Convergence 2021
Using a Smartphone App to Detect and Characterise Real-Time Patient-Reported Flares in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Julie Gandrup, Sabine N van der Veer, John McBeth and Will Dixon, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Flares are an intrinsic part of the rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease course and may impact clinical and patient outcomes. Severity, frequency and duration of…
Abstract Number: 1050 • ACR Convergence 2021
Epidemiology and Clinical Features of Ophthalmological Manifestations in Behçet’s Disease: Study of 50 Patients of a Series of 120 Patients in a Region in Northern Spain
Alba Herrero-Morant¹, Guillermo Suárez-Amorín¹, Rosalia Demetrio-Pablo¹, Lara Sánchez-Bilbao¹, Carmen Álvarez-Reguera¹, David Martinez-Lopez¹, Raul Fernandez¹, José Luis Martin-Varillas², Cristina Mata-Arnaiz³, Miguel Ángel gonzalez-Gay⁴ and Ricardo Blanco⁵, ¹Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ²Hospital Sierrallana, Torrelavega, Spain, ³Hospital Laredo, Santander, Spain, ⁴Research 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, ⁵Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain
Background/Purpose: Ophthalmological involvement is one of the most feared manifestations of Behçet’s disease.The aim of this study was to define the main demographic and clinical…
Abstract Number: 1588 • ACR Convergence 2021
Relation of Foot and Ankle Pain to Worsening Knee Pain: The MOST Study
Patrick Corrigan¹, David Felson², Tuhina Neogi³, Cara Lewis⁴, James Torner⁵, Michael Nevitt⁶, Cora Lewis⁷ and Joshua Stefanik¹, ¹Northeastern University, Boston, MA, ²Boston University, Boston, MA, ³Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ⁴Boston University, Brookline, MA, ⁵University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ⁶University of California San Francisco, Orinda, CA, ⁷University of Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: Foot and ankle pain may be a risk factor for worsening knee pain in those with or at risk for knee osteoarthritis (KOA). Foot…
Abstract Number: 0100 • ACR Convergence 2021
Safety of COVID-19 Vaccines After First Vaccination in Patients with Rheumatic Diseases in a Patient Reported Survey
Rebecca Hasseli¹, Bimba Franziska Hoyer², Hanns-Martin Lorenz³, Alexander Pfeil⁴, Jutta Richter⁵, Anne Regierer⁶, Tim Schmeiser⁷, Anja Strangfeld⁸, Reinhard Voll⁹, Andreas Krause¹⁰, Hendrik Schulze-Koops¹¹, Ulf Müller-Ladner¹² and Christof Specker¹³, ¹Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Bad Nauheim, Germany, ²Universittsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany, ³University Hospital Heidelberg Germany, Heidelberg, Germany, ⁴Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany, ⁵Rheumatology and Hiller Research Unit, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Medical Faculty, Duesseldorf, Germany, ⁶German Rheumatism Research Center, Berlin, Germany, ⁷Private Practice, Cologne, Germany, ⁸Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ⁹Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, ¹⁰Immanuel Hospital, Berlin, Germany, ¹¹Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine IV, University of Munich, Munich, Germany, ¹²JLU Giessen, Campus Kerckhoff, Dept. Rheum & Clin Immunol, Bad Nauheim, Germany, ¹³Evangelisches Krankenhaus, Kliniken Essen-Mitte, Essen, Germany
Background/Purpose: Among patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) and their treating physicians, concerns prevail about the effectiveness and safety of vaccination against COVID-19, especially…
Abstract Number: 0386 • ACR Convergence 2021
Delay to Diagnosis in Axial Spondyloarthritis: The Gap Is Closing, but Persistent Association with Severe Disease
Maria McWalter¹, Conall MacGearailt¹, Sinead Maguire², Finbar (Barry) O'Shea² and Gillian Fitzgerald³, ¹Galway University Hospitals, Galway, Ireland, ²St James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, ³Galway University Hospital, Galway, Ireland
Background/Purpose: Diagnostic delay in axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) presents a challenge in the management of the condition, despite increased awareness. Reducing the gap between symptom onset…

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