Abstracts tagged "Gout and uric acid"

Abstract Number: 121 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Serum Uric Acid Levels and Gout Flares in a US Managed Care Setting
Aki Shiozawa¹, Erin Buysman², Stephanie Korrer² and Hyon Choi³, ¹Global Outcomes and Epidemiology Research, Takeda Pharmaceuticals International, Inc, Deerfield, IL, ²Health Economics and Outcomes Research, Optum, Eden Prairie, MN, ³Massachussetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Gout is a common chronic inflammatory condition due to hyperuricemia. Gout patients typically have the clinical manifestation of acute painful flare attacks. While the…
Abstract Number: 218 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Diet-Wide Association Study of Serum Urate Levels in 13,782 Individuals of European Ancestry
Tony R. Merriman¹, Nicola Dalbeth², Ruth Topless³ and Tanya Flynn³, ¹Biochemistry Dept, PO Box 56, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, ²Department of Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, ³University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Background/Purpose: Gout is a consequence of an innate immune reaction to monosodium urate crystals deposited in joints. Acute gout attacks are commonly triggered by dietary…
Abstract Number: 219 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Targeted Deep Resequencing Identifies MRP4/ABCC4 as a Gout Risk Locus in the New Zealand Mä�ori and Pacific Island Populations
Tony R. Merriman¹, James Boocock², Callum Tanner², Murray Cadzow², Amanda Phipps-Green², Lisa K. Stamp³, Nicola Dalbeth⁴, Jennie Harre Hindmarsh⁵, David B. Mount⁶, Hyon Choi⁷ and Eli A. Stahl⁸, ¹Biochemistry Dept, PO Box 56, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, ²University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, ³Medicine, University of Otago, Christchurch, Christchurch, New Zealand, ⁴Department of Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, ⁵Ngati Porou Hauora Charitable Trust, Te Puia Springs, New Zealand, ⁶Renal Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁷Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁸Divisions of Rheumatology and Genetics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Genetic variants in uric acid transporters that control serum urate levels in Europeans have been identified by genome-wide association studies. However there is no…
Abstract Number: 228 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Gout and Risk of Non-Vertebral Osteoporotic Fracture
Seoyoung C. Kim¹, Julie M. Paik², Jun Liu³, Gary C. Curhan² and Daniel H. Solomon⁴, ¹Div. of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Div. of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Renal Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Division of Pharmaoepidemiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Prior studies suggest an association between osteoporosis, systemic inflammation and pro-inflammatory cytokines such as IL-1 and IL-6. Gout is a common inflammatory arthritis characterized…
Abstract Number: 229 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Uric Acid and Incident Dementia over 10 Years
Pascal Richette¹, Aicha Soumare², Stéphanie Debette², Thomas Bardin^3,4 and Christophe Tzourio², ¹Université Paris Diderot, UFR médicale, Paris, France; APHP Hôpital Lariboisière, Fédération de Rhumatologie and Inserm U1132, Hôpital Lariboisière, Paris, France, ²INSERM Research Center for Epidemiology and Biostatistics (U897) Team Neuroepidemiology, Bordeaux, France, ³Service de Rhumatologie, Hôpital Lariboisière, Paris, France, ⁴Rhumatology Departement, Hôpital Lariboisière, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: In patients with gout, maintaining the serum uric acid (SUA) levels too low with ULT is a matter of concern because UA is thought…
Abstract Number: 242 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Higher Serum Uric Acid Levels Are Associated with an Increased Risk of Flares: A Systematic Review
Aki Shiozawa¹, Shelagh M Szabo², Antoinette Cheung², Anna Bolzani² and Hyon K. Choi³, ¹Global Outcomes and Epidemiology Research, Takeda Pharmaceuticals International, Inc, Deerfield, IL, ²Redwood Outcomes, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ³Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Acutely painful flares represent the typical clinical burden of gout. Effective therapy can reduce serum uric acid (sUA) levels; however, epidemiologic evidence for the…
Abstract Number: 245 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Seasonal Variation in Acute Gouty Arthritis: Data from Nationwide Inpatient Sample
Paras Karmacharya¹, Ranjan Pathak², Madan Aryal², Smith Giri³ and Anthony Donato⁴, ¹Internal Medicine, Reading Health System, WEST READING, PA, ²Internal medicine, Reading Health System, West Reading, PA, ³Internal medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, ⁴Internal, Reading Health System, Salt Lake, UT
Background/Purpose: Studies describing seasonal variations in acute gouty arthritis note a seasonal trend, but disagree on timing, with most showing a peak in spring months…
Abstract Number: 935 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Microrna-146a Provides Feedback Regulation of Monosodium Urate-Induced Gouty Arthritis in Mice By Targeting Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor Associated Factor 6 and Interleukin-1 Receptor-Associated Kinase 1
Quan-Bo Zhang^1,2, Jing-Guo Zhou³, Cong-Cong Yin¹, Yu-Feng Qing⁴, Chang-Gui Li⁵, Li Zhou¹ and Qing-Sheng Mi⁶, ¹Immunology Program, Department of Dermatology, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, ²Geriatrics, Affliated hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China, ³Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Affliated hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China, ⁴Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Sichuan 637000, China, Nanchong, China, ⁵Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China, ⁶Immunology, Dermatology, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI
Background/Purpose: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have been shown to serve as important regulators for inflammatory and immune responses and are implicated in several immune disorders including gouty…
Abstract Number: 2109 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Racial Disparities in the Risk of Hospitalized Severe Allopurinol Hypersensitivity Syndrome – a US Nationwide Study (2009-2011)
Na Lu¹, Sharan K. Rai², Jeewoong Choi³ and Hyon K. Choi¹, ¹Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Experimental Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ³Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Allopurinol is the leading choice of urate-lowering therapy for gout (>95% of treated cases); however, it is associated with the rare but potentially fatal…
Abstract Number: 2111 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
A Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Arhalofenate for Preventing Flares and Reducing Serum Uric Acid in Gout Patients
Alexandra Steinberg¹, Harinder Chera¹, Yun-Jung Choi¹, Robert Martin¹, Charles McWherter¹, Yunbin Zhang², Pol Boudes¹ and on behalf of the Arhalofenate Anti-Flare Therapy Study Group, ¹Cymabay Therapeutics, Newark, CA, ²INC Research, Raleigh, NC
Background/Purpose: Arhalofenate is a novel Urate-Lowering Anti-Flare Therapy (ULAFT) to treat gout. It lowers serum uric acid (sUA) by blocking URAT1, a tubular UA transporter, and…
Abstract Number: 2355 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Effects of the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Diet on Serum Uric Acid Levels: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Na Lu¹, Yuqing Zhang², Sharan K. Rai³, Gary C. Curhan⁴ and Hyon K. Choi⁵, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²BUSM, Boston, MA, ³Experimental Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ⁴Renal Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁵Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: There is a remarkable, increasing disease burden of gout and its associated cardiovascular-metabolic comorbidities (e.g., hypertension in 74% of cases in the US), underscoring…
Abstract Number: 91 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Coevolution of a Uric Acid Transporter and Uricase: Implications for Gout
Philip K. Tan¹, Eric A. Gaucher² and Jeffrey N. Miner³, ¹Ardea Biosciences, San Diego, CA, ²Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, ³Discovery Biology, Ardea Biosciences, San Diego, CA
Background/Purpose: Gout is caused by chronic hyperuricemia, leading to uric acid deposition. Humans and apes have relatively high serum uric acid (sUA) levels due to…
Abstract Number: 2958 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Polygenic Analysis of Transport, Metabolism and Immune Related Genomic Compartments in Serum Urate and Gout
Eli A. Stahl¹, Tony R. Merriman², Amanda Dobbyn³, David B. Mount⁴, Peter Kraft⁵ and Hyon K. Choi⁶, ¹Mt Sinai School of Medicine, New York City, NY, ²Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, ³Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, ⁴Renal Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁵Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, ⁶Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Genome wide association studies (GWAS) have identified loci associated with complex traits, and the current challenge is to glean biological insights from these findings.…
Abstract Number: 2959 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Twenty-Eight Loci That Influence Serum Urate Levels: Analysis of Association with Gout
Tony R. Merriman¹, Marilyn E. Merriman¹, Ruth Topless¹, Sara Altaf², Grant Montgomery³, Christopher Franklin⁴, Gregory T. Jones⁵, Andre M. van Rij², Douglas HN White⁶, Lisa K. Stamp⁷, Nicola Dalbeth⁸ and Amanda Phipps-Green¹, ¹Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, ²University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, ³Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia, ⁴University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, ⁵Surgery, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, ⁶Waikato Clinical School, Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, New Zealand, ⁷University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand, ⁸Department of Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Background/Purpose: Twenty-eight genetic loci are associated with serum urate levels in Europeans. Ten are established, with a further 18 of weaker effect more recently detected.…
Abstract Number: 2961 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Conditional Analysis of 30 Serum Urate Loci Identifies 25 Additional Independent Effects
Eli Stahl¹, Hyon K. Choi², Murray Cadzow³, Tanya Flynn³, Ruth Topless⁴ and Tony R. Merriman⁴, ¹Mt Sinai School of Medicine, New York City, NY, ²Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ³University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, ⁴Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Background/Purpose: Single variants in 30 genetic loci have been associated with serum urate levels in Europeans by meta-analysis of summary statistics of 48 individual genome-wide…

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