ACR Meeting Abstracts
Abstract Number: 281 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
Michal Feldon1, Payam Noroozi Farhadi2, Hermine I. Brunner1, Lukasz Itert3, Bob Goldberg4, Abdullah Faiq2, Jesse Wilkerson5, Kathryn Rose5, Frederick W. Miller2, Lisa G Rider2 and Edward H. Giannini6, 1Pediatric Rheumatology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2Environmental Autoimmunity Group, NIEHS, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 3Division of Rheumatology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 4The Myositis Association, Alexandria, VA, 5Social and Scientific Systems, Inc., Durham, NC, 6Rheumatology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
Background/Purpose: Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM), such as dermatomyositis (DM), polymyositis (PM) and inclusion body myositis (IBM), are chronic multi-systemic inflammatory conditions. Substantial studies on health…