Abstracts tagged "morbidity and mortality and population studies"

Abstract Number: 2702 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2018
Incidence, Prevalence, Mortality and Comparison of the Acr/EULAR 2013 Classification Criteria with 1980 Criteria in Physician Diagnosed Systemic Sclerosis: Results from a Population Based Cohort (1980-2016)
Avneek Singh Sandhu¹, Cynthia S. Crowson², Philippe R. Bauer³, Eric L. Matteson⁴ and Ashima Makol¹, ¹Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, MN, ³Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, MN
Background/Purpose: Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) is a complex and heterogenous chronic inflammatory disease characterized by widespread fibrosis of the skin and visceral organs, microvascular injury and…