Abstracts tagged "Morbidity and mortality and polymyalgia rheumatica"

Abstract Number: 812 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2017
Mortality Risk and Cause-Specific Mortality in Polymyalgia Rheumatica: A Population-Based Cohort Study
Shafay Raheel¹, Cynthia S. Crowson² and Eric L. Matteson³, ¹Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, MN, ³Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, MN
Background/Purpose: To determine mortality risk in polymyalgia rheumatic (PMR) and compare cause-specific mortality rates among patients with PMR to age- and sex-matched comparators from the…