Abstracts tagged "obesity and spondylarthritis"

Abstract Number: 1704 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
Prevalence of Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome in Patients with Axial Spondyloarthritis
Graciela Betancur¹, Maria Celeste Orozco², Emilce Schneeberger², Ana Lizarraga¹, Natalia Zamora², Fernando Andres Sommerfleck³ and Gustavo Citera², ¹Reumatologia, Instituto de Rehabilitación Psicofísica, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ²Rheumatology, Instituto de Rehabilitación Psicofísica, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ³Rheumatologia, Instituto de Rehabilitación Psicofísica, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Background/Purpose: Estimate the prevalence of Obesity (O) and Metabolic Syndrome (MS) in AxSpA and evaluate its association with sociodemographic and clinical variables. Methods: We included…