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  • Abstract Number: 0789 • ACR Convergence 2021

    Adipokine Levels and Associations with Achievement of Low Disease Activity in Rheumatoid Arthritis

    Joshua Baker1, Bryant England2, Michael George1, Katherine Wysham3, Gail Kerr4, Andreas Reimold5, Paul Monach6, Gary Kunkel7, Brian Sauer7, Bartlett Hamilton8, Carlos Hunter2, Michael Duryee2, Geoffrey Thiele2 and Ted Mikuls2, 1University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, 3VA Puget Sound/University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 4Washington D.C., Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC)/Georgetown and Howard Universities, Washington, DC, 5University of Texas – Southwestern Medical Center/Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC), Dallas, TX, 6Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, 7University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 8University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE

    Background/Purpose: Adipokines are fat-secreted proteins that serve as metabolic regulators. Prior studies have identified associations between adipokines and disease characteristics such as disease activity and…
  • Abstract Number: 1107 • ACR Convergence 2020

    IL1RN Polymorphism Predicts Weight Loss, Inflammatory Biomarker Changes and Knee Osteoarthritis Pain Relief After Bariatric Surgery

    Jonathan Samuels1, Fernando Bomfim2, Mukundan Attur3, Christine Ren-Fielding4, Manish Parikh5, Renata La Rocca-Vieira6 and Steven B. Abramson7, 1NYU Langone, Rye Brook, NY, 2New York University, Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Millburn, NJ, 3NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, 4NYU Langone Health, New YOrk, 5Bellevue Hospital, New York, NY, 6NYU, New YOrk, 7New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY

    Background/Purpose: Symptomatic knee osteoarthritis (SKOA) patients with obesity who undergo bariatric surgery experience knee pain relief, though the reduced mechanical load explains only part of…
  • Abstract Number: 1198 • ACR Convergence 2020

    Lifestyle and Clinical Risk Factors for Incident Rheumatoid Arthritis-Associated Interstitial Lung Disease Among Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

    Vanessa Kronzer1, Weixing Huang2, Paul Dellaripa3, Sicong Huang4, Vivi Feathers2, Bing Lu5, Christine Iannaccone6, Ritu Gill7, Hiroto Hatabu8, Mizuki Nishino8, Cynthia Crowson9, John Davis1, Michael Weinblatt4, Nancy Shadick10, Tracy J. Doyle11 and Jeffrey Sparks10, 1Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 2Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation, and Immunity; Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, 3Division of Rheumatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, Boston, MA, 4Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, 5Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Newton, MA, 6Division of General Internal Medicine; Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Topsfield, MA, 7Department of Radiology; Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Topsfield, MA, 8Department of Radiology; Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, 9Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA, Rochester, MN, 10Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation, and Immunity; Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 11Brigham and Women's Hospital, West Roxbury, MA

    Background/Purpose: Despite the known excess mortality of rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease (RA-ILD), its association with certain lifestyle factors such as obesity and future prediction…
  • Abstract Number: 1321 • ACR Convergence 2020

    Central Sensitization, Disease Perception and Obesity Should Be Taken into Account When Interpreting Disease Activity in Patients with Axial Spondyloarthritis

    Stan Kieskamp1, Davy Paap2, Marllies Carbo1, Freke Wink3, Reinhard Bos4, Hendrika Bootsma1, Suzanne Arends5 and Anneke Spoorenberg5, 1University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, 2, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, 3Medical Centre Leeuwarden, Leeuwarden, Netherlands, 4Medical Centre Leeuwarden, Leeuwarden, 5University Medical Centre Groningen and Medical centre Leeuwarden, Groningen, Netherlands

    Background/Purpose: Up to 40% of ankylosing spondylitis patients report persistently high pain scores of >4 (scale of 0-10) even after responding to long-term TNF-α blocking…
  • Abstract Number: 1473 • ACR Convergence 2020

    A Combination of Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors Reduce Risk of Incident Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in the Nurses’ Health Studies

    May Choi1, Jill Hahn2, Susan Malspeis2, Emma Stevens3, Elizabeth Karlson3, Jeffrey Sparks4, Kazuki Yoshida5, Laura Kubzansky6 and Karen Costenbader7, 1Brigham and Women's Hospital | Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, 2Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, 3Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, 4Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation, and Immunity; Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 5Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 6Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 7Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

    Background/Purpose: While the association between lifestyle factors such as alcohol consumption, smoking, and body mass index (BMI) and risk of SLE have been previously investigated,…
  • Abstract Number: 1656 • ACR Convergence 2020

    Knee OA Outcomes in Patients with Severe Obesity Following Bariatric Surgery or Total Knee Arthroplasty

    Jonathan Samuels1, Stephen Zak2, Ran Schwarzkopf2, Christine Ren-Fielding3, Manish Parikh4, Alex McLawhorn5, James Browne6, Peter Hallowell7, Brian Irving8, Craig Wood9, Christopher Still9 and Peter Benotti9, 1NYU Langone, Rye Brook, NY, 2NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, 3NYU Langone Health, New YOrk, 4Bellevue Hospital, New York, NY, 5Hospital for Special Surgeyr, New York, 6University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 7University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 8Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge,, LA, 9Obesity institute at Geisinger, Danville

    Background/Purpose: High body mass index (BMI, kg/m2) is a modifiable risk factor that has been associated with the development and progression of osteoarthritis (OA) and…
  • Abstract Number: 1658 • ACR Convergence 2020

    Mediation of the Association Between Obesity and Osteoarthritis by Blood Pressure, Arterial Stiffness, and Subclinical Atherosclerosis

    Marieke Loef1, Rob van der Geest1, Hildo Lamb1, Renée de Mutsert1, Frits Rosendaal1 and Margreet Kloppenburg1, 1Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands

    Background/Purpose: Obesity-related metabolic dysregulation may lead to atherosclerotic vascular changes. It has been hypothesized that a compromised blood flow may cause detrimental changes to the…
  • Abstract Number: 1746 • ACR Convergence 2020

    Association of Obesity with Treatment Response to Methotrexate or Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitors in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

    Dilli Poudel1, Ted Mikuls2, Michael George1, Bryant England2, Grant Cannon3, Brian Sauer4 and Joshua Baker1, 1University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, 3Salt Lake City VA Medical Center and University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 4University of Utah, Omaha, NE

    Background/Purpose: Obesity affects 30-40% of RA patients and is associated with higher clinical disease activity measures and progressive disability. Studies suggest that obesity may be…
  • Abstract Number: 1883 • ACR Convergence 2020

    Exercise Partially Explains the Impact of Body Mass Index on Disease Activity in Ankylosing Spondylitis

    Jean Liew1, Milena Gianfrancesco2, Susan Heckbert1 and Lianne Gensler3, 1University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 3University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

    Background/Purpose: Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) patients have elevated cardiovascular (CV) morbidity and mortality compared to general population comparators of the same age and sex. Although obesity…
  • Abstract Number: 1915 • ACR Convergence 2020

    Leptin Plays a Critical Role in Modulating Dermal Adipose Tissue, Inflammation and Skin Fibrosis

    Roberta Goncalves Marangoni1, Stacey Duemmel2, Marc Nuzzo2, Christopher Ritchlin3 and Benjamin Korman3, 1University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, 2Department of Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, 3Department of Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY

    Background/Purpose: We previously demonstrated that systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients have substantial reduction in dermal white adipose tissue (dWAT) which correlates with skin fibrosis. In animal…
  • Abstract Number: 0139 • ACR Convergence 2020

    Routine Assessment of Patient Index Data (RAPID) 3 as a Predictor of Weight Reduction in Rheumatology Patients Undergoing Bariatric Surgery

    John Byun1, Meenakshi Jolly2, Todd Beck1 and Sobia Hassan2, 1Rush University, Chicago, 2Rush University, Chicago, IL

    Background/Purpose: Obesity is associated with higher disease activity in many rheumatologic diseases with evidence of improvement following bariatric surgery. Despite the impressive average weight loss…
  • Abstract Number: 1960 • ACR Convergence 2020

    Cost-effectiveness of Surgical and Non-Surgical Weight Loss Programs for Morbidly Obese Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis

    Valia Leifer1, Jeffrey Katz2, Faith Selzer3, Tuhina Neogi4, Jamie Collins5 and Elena Losina2, 1The Orthopaedic and Arthritis Center for Outcomes Research (OrACORe) at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, 2Harvard Medical School / The Orthopaedic and Arthritis Center for Outcomes Research (OrACORe) at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, 3The Orthopaedic and Arthritis Center for Outcomes Research (OrACORe) at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Amesbury, MA, 4Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, 5The Orthopaedic and Arthritis Center for Outcomes Research (OrACORe) at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

    Background/Purpose: Growing numbers of knee osteoarthritis (KOA) patients are morbidly obese (BMI ≥ 35 kg/m2). Evolving evidence suggests weight reduction may delay the structural progression…
  • Abstract Number: 0485 • ACR Convergence 2020

    Non-obese Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients with Low Low-density Lipoprotein Have Higher Coronary Atherosclerosis Burden, Greater Plaque Progression and Cardiovascular Event Risk

    George Karpouzas1, Sarah Ormseth1, Elizabeth Hernandez1 and Matthew Budoff1, 1Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and the Lundquist Institute, Torrance, CA

    Background/Purpose: RA patients with low body weight incur higher mortality than obese patients. Paradoxically, RA patients in the lowest low-density lipoprotein group (LDL < 70…
  • Abstract Number: 0552 • ACR Convergence 2020

    Fast Food Habits and Serum Urate Change in Young Adults: 15-Year Prospective Cohort Analysis

    Chio Yokose1, Na Lu2, Natalie McCormick1, John Choi3, Yuqing Zhang4 and Hyon Choi5, 1Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 2Arthritis Research Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 3Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 4Massachusetts General Hospital, Quincy, MA, 5Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Lexington, MA

    Background/Purpose: Fast food consumption has strong positive associations with weight gain and insulin resistance. Obesity and insulin resistance are, in turn, strongly associated with elevated…
  • Abstract Number: 0655 • ACR Convergence 2020

    Weight Loss as Treatment for Gout in Patients with Concomitant Obesity: A Proof-of-Concept Randomized Controlled Trial

    Kristian Zobbe1, Robin Christensen2, Sabrina Mai Nielsen3, Lisa Stamp4, Marius Henriksen5, Anders Føhrby Overgaard6, Lene Dreyer7, Filip Krag Knop8, Jasvinder Singh9, Michael Doherty10, Pascal Richette11, Arne Astrup12, Karen Ellegaard1, Else Marie Bartels13, Mikael Boesen14, Henrik Rindel Gudbergsen15, Henning Bliddal15 and Lars Erik Kristensen16, 1The Parker Institute - Frederiksberg og Bispebjerg Hospitaler, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2Musculoskeletal Statistics Unit, The Parker Institute/Odense University Hospital, Copenhagen F, Denmark, 3The Parker Institute, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark, Frederiksberg, Denmark, 4University of Otago Christchurch, Christchurch, New Zealand, 5The Parker Institute - Frederiksberg og Bispebjerg Hospitaler, Copenhagen, 6The Parker Institute - Frederiksberg og Bispebjerg Hospitaler, Sorø, 7Department of Rheumatology, Aalborg UnIversity Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark, 8Center for Clinical Metabolic Research, Gentofte Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Hellerup, Denmark, Copenhagen, 9University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 10Academic Rheumatology, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham UK, Nottingham, United Kingdom, 11Department of Rheumatology, Lariboisière Hospital, Paris, France, 12Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, 13Department of Neurology, Bispebjerg-Frederiksberg Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, 14Department of Radiology Copenhagen University hospital Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg; The Parker Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark, 15The Parker Institute - Frederiksberg og Bispebjerg Hospitaler, Frederiksberg, Denmark, 16The Parker Institute Copenhagen Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg, Denmark

    Background/Purpose: Despite scarce evidence regarding the effects of weight loss in gout1, international guidelines recommend dietary advice and weight loss as a core management strategy…
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