Abstracts tagged "obesity and systemic sclerosis"

Abstract Number: 1880 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2018
Cardiovascular (CV) Risk Factors and Atherosclerotic CV Events Among Incident Cases of Systemic Sclerosis: Results from a Population Based Cohort (1980-2016)
Avneek Singh Sandhu¹, Reto Kurmann², Cynthia S. Crowson³, Rekha Mankad², Eric L. Matteson⁴, Thomas Osborn¹, Kenneth J. Warrington⁵ and Ashima Makol¹, ¹Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, MN, ³Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, MN, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, MN, ⁵Rheumatology, Division of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN
Background/Purpose: Cardiac involvement, due to impairment of coronary microcirculation and myocardial fibrosis, affects prognosis in individuals with SSc, and represents one of the leading causes…