Abstracts tagged "Lupus and cardiovascular disease"

Abstract Number: 615 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2013
Relationship Between 25-Hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] and Risk For Cardiovascular Events In Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Over 11 Years In An Inception Cohort
Apinya Lertratanakul¹, Peggy Wu², Alan Dyer¹, Dafna D. Gladman³, Murray B. Urowitz³, Paul R. Fortin⁴, Dominique Ibanez³, Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman⁵ and for the Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics (SLICC)⁶, ¹Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²Rheumatology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ³Division of Rheumatology, University of Toronto, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴Medicine, Centre de Recherche du Chu de Québec et Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada, ⁵Medicine/Rheumatology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ⁶Toronto Western Hospital, Division of Rheumatology, University of Toronto, Toronto Western Hospital (Coordinating Center), Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: 25(OH)D deficiency has been associated with increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the general population. We investigated the relationship between 25(OH)D and CVD events in…