Abstracts tagged "race/ethnicity"

Abstract Number: 1854 • ACR Convergence 2021
Disease Characteristics and Social Determinants in African Americans with Systemic Sclerosis: A Single Center Experience
Sarah Compton, DeAnna Baker Frost, Richard Silver and Diane Kamen, 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: 0616 • ACR Convergence 2021
Race and Socioeconomic Status and COVID-19 Outcomes in Patients with Rheumatic Diseases: Findings from a Tertiary Care Center in the Deep South
Adam Taylor, Dongmei Sun, Jeffrey Foster and Maria I. Danila, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: The southern United States is home to a large proportion of non-Hispanic Black Americans, a group which has historically been disproportionately affected by healthcare…
Abstract Number: 1933 • ACR Convergence 2021
Association Between Race/Ethnicity and COVID-19 Outcomes in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) in United States Patients: Data from the COVID-19 Global Rheumatology Alliance
Manuel Ugarte-Gil¹, Graciela Alarcn², Andrea Seet³, Zara Izadi³, Ali Duarte-Garcia⁴, Emily Gilbert⁵, Maria Valenzuela-Almada⁶, Leanna Wise⁷, Jeffrey Sparks⁸, Tiffany Hsu⁹, Kristin D'Silva¹⁰, Naomi Patel¹⁰, Emily Sirotich¹¹, Jean Liew¹², Jonathan Hausmann¹³, Paul Sufka¹⁴, Rebecca Grainger¹⁵, Suleman Bhana¹⁶, Wendy Costello¹⁷, Zachary Wallace¹⁸, Lindsay Jacobsohn¹⁹, Anja Strangfeld²⁰, Elsa Frazão Mateus²¹, Kimme Hyrich²², Laure Gossec²³, Loreto Carmona²⁴, Saskia Lawson-Tovey²², Lianne Kearsley-Fleet²⁵, Martin Schaefer²⁶, Pedro Machado²⁷, Philip Robinson²⁸, Milena Gianfrancesco³ and Jinoos Yazdany³, ¹Hospital Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen, Essalud/Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru, ²University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ³University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁴Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁵Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, ⁶Division of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁷LAC+USC/Keck Medicine of USC, Pasadena, CA, ⁸Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Jamaica Plain, MA, ¹⁰Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ¹¹McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ¹²Boston University, Boston, MA, ¹³Boston Children's Hospital / Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Cambridge, MA, ¹⁴HealthPartners, Eagan, MN, ¹⁵University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand, ¹⁶Crystal Run Health, Montvale, NJ, ¹⁷Irish Children's Arthritis Network, Bansha, Ireland, ¹⁸Massachusetts General Hospital, Newton, MA, ¹⁹University of California San Francisco, Antioch, CA, ²⁰Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ²¹Liga Portuguesa Contra as Doenças Reumáticas (LPCDR), Lisbon, Portugal, ²²University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ²³Sorbonne Université; APHP, Rheumatology Department, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France, ²⁴Instituto de Salud Musculoesqueltica (InMusc), Madrid, Spain, ²⁵Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ²⁶German Rheumatism Research Center, Berlin, Germany, ²⁷Centre for Rheumatology & Department of Neuromuscular Diseases, University College London, London, United Kingdom, ²⁸Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Herston, Australia
Background/Purpose: Hispanic and African American race/ethnicities have been associated with poor COVID-19 outcomes in the general population and in rheumatic disease patients within the COVID-19…
Abstract Number: 0619 • ACR Convergence 2021
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Pregnancy Outcomes Among Women with Rheumatic Diseases: A Systematic Literature Review and Quantitative Analysis
Maya Swaminathan¹, Gloria Shen², Irvin Huang², Diana Louden², Waqas Tahir³ and Namrata Singh⁴, ¹MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital, Newcastle, WA, ²University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ³Rochester General Hospital, Rochester, MN, ⁴University of Washington, Bellevue, WA
Background/Purpose: Women are disproportionately affected by rheumatic diseases (RD), with many of them carrying the diagnosis in their childbearing years. Pregnant women with RD have…
Abstract Number: PP07 • ACR Convergence 2021
How Online Spanish-Language Resources Got Me and My RA Through the COVID-19 Pandemic
Wigna Cruz, Puerto Rico
Background/Purpose: I was experiencing joint pain especially in my wrists, which led me to see my physician for testing. Initially I was misdiagnosed with lupus.…
Abstract Number: 0621 • ACR Convergence 2021
Case Series of IgG4-related Disease in African American Patients at Two Large Academic Centers
Jonathan Thaler¹, Sunita Dia² and Florina Constantinescu², ¹MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, ²Medstar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC
Background/Purpose: IgG4-related Disease (IgG4-rD) is a fibroinflammatory disease with highly variable manifestations that can be difficult to diagnose. Response to treatment with prednisone and/or rituximab…
Abstract Number: 0956 • ACR Convergence 2021
Racial Disparities in Renal Outcomes over Time Among Hospitalized Children with SLE and Effects of Hospital Minority Composition
Joyce Chang¹, Cora Sears², Veronica Torres³ and Mary Beth Son¹, ¹Boston Children's Hospital, Brookline, MA, ²Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, ³Temple University, Bucks County, PA
Background/Purpose: Racial and ethnic minorities are disproportionately affected by pediatric-onset SLE and have worse outcomes compared to their white counterparts. With ongoing advances in pediatric…
Abstract Number: 1023 • ACR Convergence 2021
Racial and Ethnic Distribution of Rheumatic Diseases in Health Systems of the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network
William Nowell¹, Edward L. Barnes², Nupur Parikh¹, Shilpa Venkatachalam¹, Michael Kappelman², Jeffrey Curtis³, Peter Merkel⁴, Dianne Shaw⁵, Kalen Young⁵ and Michael George⁴, ¹Global Healthy Living Foundation, Upper Nyack, NY, ²University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ³Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁴University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁵Vasculitis Foundation, Kansas City, MO
Background/Purpose: Ensuring adequate representation of racial/ethnic minorities in research necessitates understanding the prevalence of rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases in these populations. We sought to evaluate…
Abstract Number: 0326 • ACR Convergence 2021
Apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) in African-American SLE: Frequency and Clinical Associations
Michelle Petri¹, Romy Kallas², Jessica Li³, Laurence Magder⁴ and Daniel Goldman¹, ¹Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²Lankenau Medical Center, Lankenau, PA, ³Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ⁴University of Maryland, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
Background/Purpose: The APOL1 gene is implicated in induction of TLR3 agonists and interferons as well as in autophagy. Two genetic variants, G1 (2 single nucleotide…
Abstract Number: 1034 • ACR Convergence 2021
Racial/ethnic Differences in Lupus Pregnancy Outcomes over 1 Decade: A US National Study
Bella Mehta¹, Yiming Luo², Deanna Jannat-Khah³, Jiehui Xu⁴, Lisa Sammaritano³, Jane Salmon³, Michael Lockshin¹, Susan Goodman³ and Said Ibrahim⁵, ¹Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ²National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ³Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ⁴Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ⁵Weill Cornell Medicine, Cleveland, OH
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) disproportionately affects women and minorities of childbearing age. Although maternal and fetal outcomes of pregnancy among women with SLE have…
Abstract Number: 0554 • ACR Convergence 2020
Increased Burden of Painful Arthritis and Rheumatism Following the Chikungunya Epidemic 2006: India Rural Population Survey 2018
Arvind Chopra¹, Ravi Ghorpade², Anuradha Venugopalan¹, Manjit Saluja¹ and Kiran Adam¹, ¹Center for Rheumatic Diseases, Pune, India, ²Center for Rheumatic Diseases, Pune
Background/Purpose: A spectrum of post Chikungunya (Chik) arthritis , often RA like, were referred to an urban rheumatology centre (Pune India)during the 2006 epidemic (Arthritis…
Abstract Number: 0560 • ACR Convergence 2020
Mortality Burden of Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases (IMID): Race/Ethnicity, Sex, and Geographic Variation in the United States
Ram Singh¹, Eric Yen² and Meifang Wu², ¹UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ²UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Background/Purpose: Almost every organ system can be affected by immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMID) characterized by inflammation and therapeutic response to immune-suppressive or anti-inflammatory drugs. Since…
Abstract Number: 0001 • ACR Convergence 2020
Management of Rheumatic Diseases During COVID-19: A National Veterans Affairs Survey of Rheumatologists
Jasvinder Singh¹, John Richards², Elizabeth Chang³, Amy Joseph⁴ and Bernard Ng⁵, ¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, PA, ³PVAHCS, Phoenix, AZ, ⁴Washington University / St. Louis VA, Saint Louis, MO, ⁵VA Puget Sound HCS, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: To assess the experience, views and opinions of rheumatology providers at Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities about rheumatic disease healthcare issues during the COVID-19 pandemic.Methods:…
Abstract Number: 0929 • ACR Convergence 2020
The Effect of Mycophenolate Mofetil on Pulmonary Function Tests in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis-associated Interstitial Lung Disease, and the Difference Between the African Americans versus Non-African Americans
Afroditi Boulougoura¹, Shannon Lance², Duncan Moore³, Haijun Wang⁴, Julio Huapaya⁵ and Virginia Steen³, ¹Department of Internal Medicine, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, USA., Washington, DC, ²Department of Internal Medicine, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, USA., Washington, ³Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, ⁴MedStar Health Research Institute, Washington, DC, USA, Washington, ⁵Department of Critical Care Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA., Bethesda
Background/Purpose: Scleroderma-related interstitial lung disease (SSc-ILD) is a pulmonary fibrosing disorder characterized by systemic inflammation and progressive scarring of the lungs that leads to respiratory…
Abstract Number: 0044 • ACR Convergence 2020
Characterization of Racial Disparities in Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment Choice and Location of Care
Elston He¹, Eli Cornblath², Pratyusha Yalamanchi³, Alexis Ogdie², Joshua Baker² and Michael George², ¹Synovium, Inc., Philadelphia, PA, ²University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ³Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI
Background/Purpose: Racial disparities in access to care and treatment regimens exist but remain poorly characterized in the rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patient population. Previous studies using…

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