Abstracts tagged "heart disease and mediation"

Abstract Number: 2090 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
Gender-Specific Pathways Linking Arthritis, Activity Limitation and Incident Heart Disease: A Causal Mediation Analysis of the Canadian Longitudinal National Population Health Survey
Orit Schieir¹, Sheilah. Hogg-Johnson^1,2, Richard H Glazier^3,4,5,6 and Elizabeth M. Badley^1,7, ¹Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Institute for Work and Health, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Family and Community Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴Centre for Research on Inner City Health, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁶Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁷Division of Health Care and Outcomes Research, Toronto Western Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Arthritis and activity limitation are risk factors for cardiovascular (CVD) morbidity and mortality. As arthritis is a major cause of activity limitation, the objective…