Abstracts tagged "inflammatory arthritis and risk assessment"

Abstract Number: 415 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Stability Of Carotid Intima Media Thickness and No Plaque Formation In Inflammatory Arthritis Patients On Biologics Over One Year
Stephanie O. Keeling¹, Asvina Bissonauth², Jeff Odenbach², Quazi Ibrahim³ and Michael Sean McMurtry⁴, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Canada, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ²Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ³Medicine, EPICORE, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ⁴Cardiology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Background/Purpose: Carotid intima media (cIMT) measurement is a validated surrogate measure of cardiovascular (CV) disease. Our aim was to evaluate baseline and follow-up cIMTs in…
Abstract Number: 69 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Presence of Asymptomatic Carotid Plaques in Patients with Inflammatory Joint Disease Results in Inadequate Treatment to Lipid Targets in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
Anne G. Semb¹, Silvia Rollefstad², Inge C. Olsen³, Desiree van der Heijde⁴ and Tore K. Kvien⁵, ¹Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ²Rhuematology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ³Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ⁴Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁵Dept. of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Background/Purpose: The prevalence of asymptomatic carotid plaque (a-CP) is high in patients with inflammatory joint disease (IJD). Patients with a-CP should receive intensive lipid lowering…

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