Abstracts tagged "race/ethnicity"

Abstract Number: 0604 • ACR Convergence 2021
Disparities in Burden of Disease in Patients with RA Across Racial and Ethnic Groups
Jacqueline O’Brien¹, Sang Hee Park², Taylor Blachley¹, Maya Marchese¹, Nicole Middaugh¹, Xue Han², Keith Wittstock² and Leslie Harrold¹, ¹CorEvitas, LLC, Waltham, MA, ²Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ
Background/Purpose: Prior research has shown that differences exist in disease activity and clinical outcomes for RA across racial and ethnic groups in the US.1 This…
Abstract Number: 1780 • ACR Convergence 2021
Racial Disparities in Comorbidities of Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis
Sabahath Jaleel¹, Yael Ross¹ and Marina Magrey², ¹Case Western Reserve University at MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, ²Case Western Reserve Universtiy at MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH
Background/Purpose: Racial heterogeneity of the US population makes it imperative to study the racial differences in clinical characteristics, medication use and co-morbidities of PsA patients…
Abstract Number: 0608 • ACR Convergence 2021
Adaptation of a Shared Decision-Making Tool for Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment Decisions with Indigenous Patients
Valerie Umaefulam¹, Terri-Lynn Fox¹, Glen Hazlewood¹, Nick Bansback², Claire Barber¹ and Cheryl Barnabe¹, ¹University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ²University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Background/Purpose: Patient decision aids (PtDA) can enable shared decision-making between patients and healthcare providers. We have previously developed a PtDA for first-line methotrexate-based treatment options…
Abstract Number: 1839 • ACR Convergence 2021
Hispanic Patients with Systemic Sclerosis Have More Severe Disease and Higher Mortality: A Longitudinal Cohort Study
Bochra Jandali¹, Marka Lyons², Julio Charles², Maureen Mayes³ and Shervin Assassi¹, ¹University of Texas McGovern Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX, ²Division of Rheumatology, University of Texas McGovern Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX, ³Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunogenetics, University of Texas McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) shows disparities in incidence, disease manifestations, and prognosis in different ethnic groups. The data regarding disease characteristics and outcomes in Hispanic…
Abstract Number: 0610 • ACR Convergence 2021
Evaluating Patient No Show Rates to Rheumatology Appointments Across a Regional Healthcare System
Osman Bhatty¹, Rebecca Schorr², Tarun Sharma¹ and Mary Chester Wasko¹, ¹Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, ²Highmark Health, Pittsburgh, PA
Background/Purpose: No-show visits in various clinical settings are costly to providers and to health care systems, potentially representing between 3-14% of a clinic’s yearly income.…
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: 0274 • ACR Convergence 2020
The Rising Incidence of Lupus Nephritis: A Population-Based Study of Four Decades
Mehmet Hocaoglu¹, Shirley-Ann Osei-Onomah², Jesse Dabit³, Rachel Giblon³, Thomas O'Byrne³, Fernando C. Fervenza³, Cynthia Crowson⁴ and Ali Duarte-Garcia³, ¹University of Maryland Medical Center Midtown Campus, Baltimore, MD, ²Mayo Clinic, Rochester, ³Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁴Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA, Rochester, MN
Background/Purpose: Estimating the incidence of lupus nephritis (LN) is important to understand disease burden, particularly since patients with LN have a higher morbidity and mortality…
Abstract Number: 1474 • ACR Convergence 2020
Early Peak of Cardiovascular Events Occurs Equally in Caucasians and African-American SLE but Is Attributed to Different Risk Factors
Michelle Petri¹, Jessica Li² and Daniel Goldman¹, ¹Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Timonium, MD, ²Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Background/Purpose: The classic bimodal pattern of morbidity/mortality in SLE highlighted that cardiovascular events occurred later in the natural history of SLE (Urowitz & Gladman. J…
Abstract Number: 0298 • ACR Convergence 2020
Local Genetic Ancestry Associations with Clinical Features of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Olivia Solomon¹, Cristina Lanata², Cameron Adams¹, Joanne Nititham³, Kim Taylor³, Sharon Chung³, Bernardo Pons-Estel⁴, Teresa Tusié-Luna⁵, Betty Tsao⁶, Eric Morand⁷, Marta Alarcón-Riquelme⁸, Lisa Barcellos¹ and Lindsey Criswell⁹, ¹University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, ²UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ³University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁴Centro Regional de Enfermedades Autoinmunes y Reumáticas (GO-CREAR), Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina, ⁵Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubiran and Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, ⁶Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, ⁷Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, ⁸Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation;Centro Pfizer-Universidad de Granada-Junta de Andalucía de Genómica e Investigación Oncológica, Granada (GENYO), Granada, Spain, ⁹Rosalind Russell/Ephraim P. Engleman Rheumatology Research Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease with heterogeneous clinical manifestations which are known to vary in severity by race. Health disparities in…
Abstract Number: 1963 • ACR Convergence 2020
Variation in Quality of Care Among Patient Sociodemographic Groups in RISE Practices
Zara Izadi¹, Gabriela Schmajuk² and Jinoos Yazdany³, ¹University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²University of California, San Francisco, Atherton, CA, ³University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Previous studies have shown that sociodemographic factors are associated with quality of care. Using the Rheumatology Informatics System for Effectiveness (RISE) registry, we assessed…
Abstract Number: 0443 • ACR Convergence 2020
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups Diagnosed with Rheumatic Diseases
Emily Sirotich¹, Teresa Semalulu¹, Kevin Kennedy², Salman Surangiwala³, Maggie Larche¹, Jean Liew⁴, Mitchell Levine², Graeme Reed⁵, Naira Ikram⁶, Carly Harrison⁷, Richard Howard⁸, Rashmi Sinha⁹, Monique Gore-Massy¹⁰ and Jonathan Hausmann¹¹, ¹McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ²McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, ³Queen’s School of Medicine, Kingston, Canada, ⁴University of Washington, Seattle, ⁵Canadian Spondylitis Association, Vancouver, Canada, ⁶Duke University, Durham, ⁷Lupus Chat, NA, ⁸Spondylitis Association of America, Van Nuys, CA, ⁹SJIA Foundation, Cincinnati, ¹⁰Lupus Foundation of America, Brooklyn, NY, ¹¹Boston Children's Hospital / Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Cambridge, MA
Background/Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated structural and systematic barriers in access to healthcare for racial and ethnic minorities. The impact of these increased barriers…

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