Abstracts tagged "multicenter study and pain"

Abstract Number: 2873 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2018
Remaining Pain and Widespread, Non-Inflammatory Pain Distribution during the First 12 Months after RA Diagnosis
Yvonne C. Lee¹, Orit Schieir², Marie-France Valois³, Susan J. Bartlett⁴, Gilles Boire⁵, Boulos Haraoui⁶, Carol A Hitchon⁷, Edward C. Keystone⁸, Diane Tin⁹, Carter Thorne¹⁰, Janet E. Pope¹¹ and Vivian P. Bykerk¹², ¹Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ²McGill University, Montreal, ON, Canada, ³McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁴Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁵Rheumatology Division, Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux de l'Estrie - Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke and Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, ⁶Institut de Recherche en Rhumatologie de Montréal (IRRM), Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁷University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ⁸Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁹The Arthritis Program, Southlake Regional Health Centre, Newmarket, ON, Canada, ¹⁰University of Toronto, Newmarket, ON, Canada, ¹¹Department of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, ¹²Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: The incidence of fibromyalgia is highest in the first 12 months after RA diagnosis,1 indicating that this period may represent a critical window during…