Abstracts tagged "Lupus and outcome measures"

Abstract Number: 2173 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Impact of Smoking on Patient-Reported Disease Status and Symptoms Among Women with Lupus
Patricia P. Katz¹, Eliza Chakravarty², Robert S. Katz³ and Kaleb Michaud⁴, ¹Medicine/Rheumatology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²Arthritis and Clinical Immunology, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ³Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, ⁴Internal Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
Background/Purpose: Smoking appears to be associated both with an increased risk of rheumatoid arthritis and with more severe symptoms. The impact of smoking on patient-reported…