Abstracts tagged "Inflammatory myositis and statins"

Abstract Number: 2149 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2017
Statin Use in a Longitudinal Cohort of Patients with Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies
Sangmee Bae¹, Ilana Golub¹, Buzand Oganesian² and Christina Charles-Schoeman¹, ¹University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ²University of California, Los Angeles, Los angeles, CA
Background/Purpose: Patients(pts) with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) have an increased risk of cardiovascular (CV) disease. Statins reduce CV risk but have been associated with myalgias,…