Abstracts tagged "morbidity and mortality"

Abstract Number: 229 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Disability Status, Mortality, and Leading Causes of Death in Seropositive Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients: A Population-Based Study in Korea
In Ah Choi¹, Jeong Seok Lee^2,3 and Eun Young Lee², ¹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Chungbuk National University Hospital, Cheongju, Korea, Republic of (South), ²Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), ³Graduate School of Medical Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of (South)
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disease that leads to functional disability and premature mortality. We aimed to identify the status of disability…
Abstract Number: 772 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Cytomegaloviral or Pneumocystis Jiroveci Pneumonia Increases Mortality Rate in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients with Pulmonary Hemorrhage: Evidence from Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid Analysis
Chien-Chih Lai, Yi-Syuan Sun and De-Feng Huang, Allergy, Immunology, Rheumatology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan, Taipei City, Taiwan
Background/Purpose: To evaluate the role of cytomegaloviral or Pneumocystic jiroveci pneumonia (CMV/PJP) in SLE patients with pulmonary hemorrhage (PH).Methods: We retrospectively examined hospital records for…
Abstract Number: 805 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Diastolic Dysfunction in Scleroderma: An Investigation into Associated Risk Factors and Impact on Survival
Alicia M. Hinze^1,2, Laura K. Hummers¹, Fredrick M. Wigley¹, Monica Mukherjee³ and Ami A. Shah¹, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²Division of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ³Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Background/Purpose: Scleroderma heart disease often goes unrecognized until severe clinical manifestations are present. Diastolic dysfunction (DD) may identify patients at risk for cardiac complications by…
Abstract Number: 823 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Survival of Biopsy Proven Giant Cell Arteritis in Northern Italy: Correlation with Clinical, Laboratory and Histopathological Findings
Luigi Boiardi¹, Pierluigi Macchioni², Francesco Muratore³, Mariagrazia Catanoso², Alberto Cavazza⁴, Pamela Mancuso⁵, Luca Cimino⁶, Giovanna Restuccia⁷ and Carlo Salvarani⁸, ¹Rheumatology Unit, Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova - IRCCS, Reggio Emilia, Italy, ²Rheumatology Unit, Arcispedale S Maria Nuova, IRCCS, Reggio Emilia, Italy, ³Rheumatology Unit, Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova - IRCCS; Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy, ⁴Pathology Unit, Arcispedale S Maria Nuova-IRCCS, Reggio Emilia, Italy, ⁵Interinstitutional Epidemiology Unit, Azienda USL di Reggio Emilia (Local Health Authority) and Azienda Ospedaliera IRCCS di Reggio Emilia,, Reggio Emilia, Italy, ⁶Ophthalmology Unit, Arcispedale S Maria Nuova-IRCCS, Reggio Emilia, Italy, ⁷Rheumatology Unitn, Arcispedale S Maria Nuova, IRCCS, 42100, Italy, ⁸Rheumatology Unit, Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova - IRCCS; Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Reggio-Emilia, Italy
Background/Purpose: To correlate survival with clinical, laboratory and histopathological findings in a population based cohort of patients with biopsy-proven giant cell arteritis (GCA) living in…
Abstract Number: 834 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Clinical Characteristics of IgA Vasculitis in Children and Adults: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Michel Villatoro-Villar¹, Cynthia S. Crowson^1,2, Kenneth J. Warrington³, Ashima Makol¹, Steven R. Ytterberg³ and Matthew J. Koster¹, ¹Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ³Rheumatology, Division of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN
Background/Purpose: Differences in both presentation and outcome based on age of diagnosis have been described in patients with IgA vasculitis (IgAV) but data are limited…
Abstract Number: 872 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Is the Serum Uric Acid Therapeutic Target Protective of Chronic Kidney Disease, Cardiovascular Disease, and Mortality for Patients with Gout? a Longitudinal Study
Douglas C.A. Taylor¹, Dena Jaffe², Moshe Hoshen³, Galit Shefer³, Asaf Bachrach³, Becca Feldman³, An-Chen Fu¹ and Hyon K. Choi⁴, ¹Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Cambridge, MA, ²Kantar Health, Tel Aviv, Israel, ³Clalit Research Institute, Tel Aviv, Israel, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Many studies have found that serum uric acid (sUA) levels are associated with the incidence of chronic kidney disease (CKD), cardiovascular disease (CVD), and…
Abstract Number: 1171 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Mortality Among Those with OA: Time-Varying Effects of Socioeconomic Measures
Becki Cleveland¹, Todd Schwartz², Amanda Nelson³, Jordan B. Renner⁴, Joanne M. Jordan⁵ and Leigh F. Callahan⁵, ¹University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ²Department of Biostatistics, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ³UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁴UNC School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁵Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Background/Purpose: Measures of socioeconomic status (SES) have been shown to be associated with increased OA and disability. However, it is unknown whether changes in SES…
Abstract Number: 2503 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Impact of Tobacco Smoking on 1-Year Mortality Following Total Hip and Total Knee Arthroplasty Among Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients – a Danish Cohort Study Using Nationwide Health Care Registers
René Cordtz^1,2, Laerke Bech-Illum³, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra⁴, Pil Hoejgaard^3,5, Kristian Zobbe^3,6, Nina Imbæk³ and Lene Dreyer⁷, ¹Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Gentofte-Rigshospitalet, Hellerup, Denmark, ²The Parker Institute, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, The Capital Region of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, ³Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases - Gentofte, Rigshospitalet, Hellerup, Denmark, ⁴Internal Medicine and Primary Care, URFOA-IMIM, Parc de Salut Mar; Idiap Jordi Gol i Gurina-Institut Català de la Salut; Oxford NIHR Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, Barcelona, Spain, ⁵The Parker Institute, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, The Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark, ⁶The Parker Institute, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Capital Region of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, ⁷Departments of Rheumatology and Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University Hospital and Aalborg University, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark
Background/Purpose: Tobacco smoking and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are independent risk factors for short-term complications following total hip and total knee arthroplasty (THA/TKA). We aimed to…
Abstract Number: 2674 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Identifying Phenotype Clusters in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus By Damage Cluster
Ga Young Ahn¹, Jiyoung Lee², Eunji Ha³, Kwangwoo Kim³, Hyoungyoung Kim¹, Ji Soong Kim¹, Bora Nam¹, Juyeon Kang¹, Hyuk-Hee Kwon¹, So-Young Bang¹, Hye-Soon Lee¹ and Sang-Cheol Bae¹, ¹Rheumatology, Hanyang University Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), ²Clinical Research Center for Rheumatoid Arthritis (CRCRA), Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), ³Biology, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South)
Background/Purpose: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a multisystem autoimmune disease with complex genetic background. Recently, subphenotype in SLE has influenced dialogue on discussing the genetic…
Abstract Number: 2803 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
48-Year Trends in Systemic Sclerosis Mortality in the United States, 1968-2015: Steady Decrease for 15 Years after 33 Years of Continuous Increase
Eric Yen, Devanshu Singh and Ram R. Singh, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Background/Purpose: A comprehensive evaluation of long-term trends in systemic sclerosis (SSc) mortality is important to understand the influence of recent advances in SSc management and…
Abstract Number: 2376 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Weight Histories Expose the Systematic Underestimation of the Risks of Obesity on Mortality in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Joshua Baker¹, Bryant R. England², Ted R. Mikuls³ and Kaleb Michaud⁴, ¹Medicine/Rheumatology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Division of Rheumatology & Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, Nebraska-Western IA VA Health Care System & University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ³Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ⁴University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
Background/Purpose: Emerging evidence suggests that long-term weight loss is an important confounder that results in an underestimation of the risks of obesity in chronic illness.…
Abstract Number: 2665 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Mortality in an Early Diffuse Cutaneous Systemic Sclerosis Cohort—Data from the Prospective Registry for Early Systemic Sclerosis
Tracy M. Frech¹, Shervin Assassi², Elana J. Bernstein³, Flavia V. Castelino⁴, Robyn T. Domsic⁵, Jessica K. Gordon⁶, Faye Hant⁷, Monique Hinchcliff⁸, Bernie LaSalle⁹, Victoria K. Shanmugam¹⁰, Virginia D. Steen¹¹ and Dinesh Khanna¹², ¹Division of Rheumatology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ²University of Texas McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX, ³Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Columbia University, New York, NY, ⁴Rheumatology, Allergy, Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁵Medicine - Rheumatology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁶Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ⁷Medicine/Rheumatology & Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ⁸Department of Medicine Division of Rheumatology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ⁹University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ¹⁰Rheumatology, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, ¹¹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, ¹²University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Background/Purpose: The Prospective Registry of Early Systemic Sclerosis (PRESS) cohort is an early diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis (dcSSc) that provides an opportunity to assess the…
Abstract Number: 2921 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Improved Survival Following Renal Transplantation in Waitlisted Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in the United States
April Jorge¹, Zachary S. Wallace², Na Lu³, Yuqing Zhang⁴ and Hyon K. Choi⁵, ¹Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ³Department of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁴School Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Lupus nephritis is a major complication of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), occurring in up to half all SLE patients and progressing to end-stage renal…
Abstract Number: 2982 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Morbidity and Mortality of Scleroderma in African Americans
Duncan F. Moore¹, Elisabeth Kramer¹, Rami Eltaraboulsi² and Virginia D. Steen¹, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, ²MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC
Background/Purpose: Retrospective cohorts have demonstrated that African Americans (AAs) with scleroderma are more likely to have severe disease and higher mortality than non-AAs. A prior…
Abstract Number: 145 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Cause-Specific Mortality in a Large Population-Based Cohort of Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients in Italy
Francesca Ometto¹, UGO FEDELI², ELENA SCHIEVANO², Costantino Botsios³, MARIA CHIARA CORTI² and Leonardo Punzi⁴, ¹Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine - DIMED, University of Padova, PADOVA, Italy, ²Epidemiological Department, Veneto Region, VENETO, Italy, ³Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine - DIMED, University of Padova, Padova, Italy, ⁴Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine DIMED, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
Background/Purpose: Studies on mortality in RA from Italy are completely lacking. The aim of our study was to investigate cause-specific mortality in RA subjects living…

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