Abstracts tagged "Osteoarthritis"

Abstract Number: L05 • ACR Convergence 2022
Effect of Denosumab on Structure Modification in Erosive Hand Osteoarthritis: Results of a 48-Week, Monocentric, Randomized, Placebo-controlled, Double-blind Phase 2 Study and Open Label Extension Phase
Ruth Wittoek¹, August Verbruggen², Tine Vanhaverbeke² and Dirk Elewaut³, ¹Dept. of Rheumatology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent University, Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium, ²Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium, ³Ghent University and VIB Center for Inflammation Research, Ghent, Belgium
Background/Purpose: Erosive hand osteoarthritis (OA) is a disabling disease with limited therapeutic options. Denosumab, a Receptor Activator of Nuclear Factor kappa-b Ligand inhibitor, affects bone…
Abstract Number: 0026 • ACR Convergence 2022
Silencing of WISP-2 Induces Inflammatory Mediators and Catabolic Factors in Cartilage
Clara Ruiz-Fernández¹, María González-Rodríguez², Vera Francisco³, Djedjiga Ait Eldjoudi², Alfonso Cordero-Barreal², Yousof Farrag², Jesús Pino⁴, Miguel Ángel González-Gay⁵, Antonio Mera⁶, Francisca Lago² and Oreste Gualillo⁷, ¹Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain, ²Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, ³Institute of Health Research-INCLIVA, València, Spain, ⁴Santiago Clinic Hospital CHUS-Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, ⁵Department of Medicine and Psychiatry, Universidad de Cantabria; Rheumatology Division, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla; Research group on genetic epidemiology and atherosclerosis in systemic diseases and in metabolic diseases of the musculoskeletal system, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain. Cardiovascular Pathophysiology and Genomics Research Unit, School of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, ⁶Santiago University Clinical Hospital CHUS, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, ⁷Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago, SERGAS (Servizo Galego de Saude) and IDIS (Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago), NEIRID Lab (Neuroendocrine Interactions in Rheumatology and Inflammatory Diseases), Research Laboratory 9, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Background/Purpose: Wnt-1 inducible signaling pathway protein 2 (WISP-2/CCN5) is an adipokine that has been described as an important mediator of canonical Wnt activation in adipogenic…
Abstract Number: 0590 • ACR Convergence 2022
Molecular Profiling of Normal Human Synovium Reveals Striking Impact of Adipocytes and Homeostatic Cortisol Signaling
Heather Faust¹, Tan-Yun Cheng¹, Ilya Korsunsky¹, Gerald FM Watts¹, David Moody¹ and Michael Brenner², ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: The synovium encapsulates joints and contains fibroblasts which proliferate, become invasive, and drive disease progression in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and osteoarthritis (OA). There is…
Abstract Number: 1143 • ACR Convergence 2022
Epigenome-wide Analysis of Osteoarthritis in the Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study
Michelle S. Yau¹, Paul C. Okoro², Ida K. Haugen³, John A. Lynch⁴, Michael Nevitt⁵, Cora E. Lewis⁶, James Torner⁷ and David Felson⁸, ¹Hebrew SeniorLife, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Hebrew SeniorLife, Boston, MA, ³Center for treatment of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases (REMEDY), Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway, Oslo, Norway, ⁴UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ⁵University of California at San Francisco, Orinda, CA, ⁶University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁷University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ⁸Boston University, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Epigenetic mechanisms like DNA methylation may play a role in OA. For example, expression of GDF5, a well-known OA gene, is modulated by demethylation…
Abstract Number: 1754 • ACR Convergence 2022
Association of Cognitive Impairment and Symptomatic Lower Extremity Osteoarthritis by Level of Physical Activity: Preliminary Data from the Johnston County Health Study
Kharma Foucher¹, Amanda Nelson², Leigh Callahan³ and Yvonne Golightly⁴, ¹University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, ²University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ³University of North Carolina Thurston Arthritis Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁴University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
Background/Purpose: While osteoarthritis (OA) is associated with an increased risk of dementia,1 the frequency of milder cognitive impairment is unknown. Mild to moderate cognitive impairment…
Abstract Number: 1896 • ACR Convergence 2022
Alkylresorcinol, a Biomarker for Whole Grain Intake, and Its Association with Osteoarthritis: The MOST Study
Juan-Pablo Zertuche¹, Gabriela Rabasa¹, Alice H. Lichtenstein², Nirupa R. Matthan², Michael Nevitt³, James Torner⁴, Cora E. Lewis⁵, Devyani Misra⁶ and David Felson¹, ¹Boston University, Boston, MA, ²Tufts University, Boston, MA, ³University of California at San Francisco, Orinda, CA, ⁴University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ⁵University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁶Beth Israel Deconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Whole grains, particularly wheat, are an important source of dietary fiber in the US. By providing a fermentable source, whole grains can modify the…
Abstract Number: 1912 • ACR Convergence 2022
Associations of Nociceptive Dysfunction with Physical Activity in Knee Osteoarthritis: The Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study
Deepak Kumar¹, Na Wang², Kaveh Torabian¹, Kosaku Aoyagi³, Joshua Stefanik⁴, Laura Frey-Law⁵, Lisa Carlesso⁶, Jeffrey Hausdorff⁷, Eran Gazit⁷, Neil Segal⁸, Cora E. Lewis⁹, Michael Nevitt¹⁰ and Tuhina Neogi², ¹Boston University, Boston, MA, ²Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ³Boston University, Quincy, MA, ⁴Northeastern University, Boston, MA, ⁵University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ⁶McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ⁷Tel Aviv Suarasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, ⁸University of Kansas, Kansas City, KS, ⁹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ¹⁰University of California San Francisco, Orinda, CA
Background/Purpose: Individuals with chronic pain due to knee osteoarthritis (OA) are insufficiently physically active and increasing physical activity is the first line recommendation for management…
Abstract Number: 2263 • ACR Convergence 2022
Nanotherapeutic Approaches for the Treatment of Post-traumatic Osteoarthritis
Luke Springer¹, Kelsey Collins², Huimin Yan², Ying Hu³, Farshid Guilak², Samuel Wickline⁴, Hua Pan² and Christine Pham², ¹Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, ²Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, ³Washington University, Saint Louis, MO, ⁴University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Background/Purpose: Osteoarthritis (OA) represents the most common form of arthritis and is a major cause of morbidity in the aging population. Post-traumatic OA (PTOA) is…
Abstract Number: 0027 • ACR Convergence 2022
Associations of Serum C3f with Selected Biomarkers and Radiographic and Clinical Features of Knee Osteoarthritis
Yulia Liem¹, Andrew Judge¹, Khadija Ourradi¹, Dominique de Seny², Yunfei Li¹ and Mohammed Sharif¹, ¹University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, ²University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
Background/Purpose: C3 complement fragment (C3f) has been identified as a potential biomarker for evaluating osteoarthritis (OA). C3f is released during the catabolic degradation of C3b…
Abstract Number: 0610 • ACR Convergence 2022
Patient-derived Organoids Reveal Transcriptional Regulation of Synovial Lining Fibroblast Differentiation
Sonia Presti¹, Gerald FM Watts¹, Zhu Zhu¹, Kartik Bhamidipati¹, Junning Case¹, Yuhong Li¹, Teri Bowman¹, Suppawat Kongthong¹, ilya Korsunsky¹, Michael Brenner² and Kevin Wei³, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ³Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Synovial lining fibroblasts secrete factors into the joint cavity that promote joint lubrication1. In inflammatory arthritis, sublining fibroblasts undergo marked expansion while lining fibroblasts…
Abstract Number: 1149 • ACR Convergence 2022
A Novel Mitochondrial Variant as a Predictor for the Rapid Progressive Knee Osteoarthritis Phenotype: Development of a Predictive Model and Functional Studies
Alejandro Durán-Sotuela¹, Mercedes Fernández-Moreno¹, Tamara Hermida-Gómez¹, Sara Relaño¹, Victoria Suárez-Ulloa², vanesa Balboa-Barreiro³, Natividad Oreiro¹, Jorge Vázquez-García¹, FJ Blanco¹ and Ignacio Rego-Pérez¹, ¹Servicio de Reumatología. Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC). Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña (CHUAC), Sergas. Universidade da Coruña (UDC), A Coruña, Spain, ²Plataforma de Bioinformática. Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC). Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña (CHUAC), Sergas. Universidade da Coruña (UDC), A Coruña, Spain, ³Unidad de apoyo a la Investigación. Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC). Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña (CHUAC), Sergas. Universidade da Coruña (UDC), A Coruña, Spain
Background/Purpose: Knee osteoarthritis progression is heterogeneous in the population, being the most aggresive form the rapid progressive knee osteoarthritis (RPKOA). These patients suffer a worsening…
Abstract Number: 1755 • ACR Convergence 2022
Improving Quality of Life Through Connection: A Scoping Review of Peer Coaching Interventions in the Field of Rheumatology
Megan Creasman¹, Mackenzie Brown², Yuliana Domínguez Páez³, Michelle Demetres⁴, Monika Safford⁴ and Iris Navarro-Millan⁴, ¹NYP-Weill Cornell, New York, NY, ²Weill Cornell Medicine, Brooklyn, NY, ³Weill Cornell Medicine, Bronx, NY, ⁴Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Peer coaches are lay individuals providing health education and behavior change interventions, and often have the same condition as the person that they are…
Abstract Number: 1897 • ACR Convergence 2022
A Preliminary Estimate of Objectively Measured Sedentary Behavior in Knee Osteoarthritis
Thomas Bye, Dana Voinier, Jason Jakiela, Jéssica Bianca Aily and Daniel White, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Background/Purpose: Adults with knee osteoarthritis (OA) are thought to have elevated levels of sedentary behavior (SB). The Sedentary Behavior Research Network defines SB as total…
Abstract Number: 1913 • ACR Convergence 2022
The Association of Radiographic Chondrocalcinosis with Localized Structural Outcomes in Knee OA: The Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study
Jean Liew¹, Ali Guermazi², Mohamed Jarraya³, Na Wang¹, David Felson², Cora E. Lewis⁴, Michael Nevitt⁵, James Torner⁶, John A. Lynch⁷ and Tuhina Neogi¹, ¹Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ²Boston University, Boston, MA, ³Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁴University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁵University of California at San Francisco, Orinda, CA, ⁶University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ⁷UCSF, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Intra-articular (IA) mineralization due to calcium crystal deposition may contribute to OA pathology through inflammation, release of pro-catabolic factors, or altered cartilage biomechanical properties.…
Abstract Number: PP09 • ACR Convergence 2022
A Matter of Life and Death: Why Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Matter for Health Care Providers
Tonya Horton, Rutgers University, Cherry Hill, NJ
Background/Purpose: In 2017, I went from exercising daily to hardly able to walk due to severe knee pain. My primary care doctor ordered x-rays and…

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