Abstracts tagged "race/ethnicity and systemic sclerosis"

Abstract Number: 1721 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Racial Differences in SSc Disease Presentation: A Cross-Sectional European Scleroderma Trials and Research Group Study
Veronika K. Jaeger¹, Elise Siegert², Eric Hachulla³, Paolo Airò⁴, Gabriele Valentini⁵, Marco Matucci-Cerinic⁶, Oliver Distler⁷, Franco Cozzi⁸, Yannick Allanore⁹, Mangtao Li¹⁰, Mohammed Tikly¹¹ and Ulrich A. Walker¹, ¹Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, ²Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité - University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ³Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Immunology, Hôpital Claude Huriez, University of Lille, Lille, France, ⁴Rheumatology and Clinical immunology Unit, Spedali Civili of Brescia, Brescia, Italy, ⁵Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy, ⁶Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy, ⁷Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, ⁸Division of Rheumatology, Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Padova, Padova, Italy, ⁹Immunogenetics, Cochin Institute, Paris, France, ¹⁰Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China, ¹¹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital and University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Background/Purpose: Genetic and environmental factors play a significant role in SSc. African Americans are known for a higher SSc incidence, an earlier age of onset,…
Abstract Number: 1697 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Unique Characteristics of Scleroderma Among African Americans: A Population Based Study
Sarah M. Compton¹, Richard M. Silver² and Diane L. Kamen³, ¹Internal Medicine, Medical University Of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ²Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ³Medicine/Rheumatology & Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a rare autoimmune disease categorized on the basis of skin involvement as either limited or diffuse cutaneous SSc, the latter…
Abstract Number: 2911 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
A Comparison of Gastrointestinal Disease Severity in African American and Caucasian Scleroderma Patients
Carolyn Fridley¹ and Virginia D. Steen², ¹Rheumatology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, ²Rheumatology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC
A Comparison of Gastrointestinal Disease Severity in African American and Caucasian Scleroderma Patients Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a multisystem autoimmune disease. After skin involvement…

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