Abstract Number: 229 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Uric Acid and Incident Dementia over 10 Years
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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: 121 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Serum Uric Acid Levels and Gout Flares in a US Managed Care Setting
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
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
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
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: 2958 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Polygenic Analysis of Transport, Metabolism and Immune Related Genomic Compartments in Serum Urate and Gout
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
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
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…