Abstracts tagged "race/ethnicity"

Abstract Number: 1182 • ACR Convergence 2025
Cardiac Sarcoidosis in Black Patients: A Biopsy-Confirmed Cohort Study
Roshan Subedi¹, Haya Haddad², Rachel Barish¹, Tania Vora¹, Nana Afari-Armah³, Ajay Kadakkal¹, Farooq Sheikh¹ and Florina Constantinescu¹, ¹Medstar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, ²Medstar Washington Hospital Center, Silver Spring, MD, ³Medstar Washington Hospital Center, Washington
Background/Purpose: Sarcoidosis is an inflammatory disease characterized by non-necrotizing granulomatous inflammation that can affect any organ. Approximately 5% of patients with sarcoidosis develop clinically significant…
Abstract Number: 0364 • ACR Convergence 2025
Group-Based Medical Mistrust and Logistical Factors Influencing Rheumatology Clinical Trial Enrollment: A Single-Center Cross-Sectional Survey
Andreina Martinez Paulino¹, Miles King², Danny Arias Diaz¹, Asma Cheema³ and Muznay Khawaja⁴, ¹Jersey City Medical Center, Jersey City, NJ, ²Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, ³Montefiore Einstein , Wakefield Campus, Woodbridge Township, NJ, ⁴Jersey City Medical Center, Hoboken, NJ

Background/Purpose: Clinical trials are the cornerstone of evidence-based rheumatology, yet enrolling and retaining a representative patient cohort remains challenging. While underrepresentation of underserved minorities is…
Abstract Number: 2221 • ACR Convergence 2025
Racial Differences in Cardiovascular Events and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes Among Pregnant Individuals With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Rashmi Dhital¹, Rebecca Baer² and Christina Chambers³, ¹Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Brentwood, TN, ²University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, ³University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Background/Purpose: Pregnant individuals with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) face an increased risk of cardiovascular events (CVEs) as well as adverse pregnancy outcomes (APOs). While racial…
Abstract Number: 1143 • ACR Convergence 2025
Gout and Renal Failure-Related Mortality Trends in USA from 1999-2020: Analysis of CDC Wonder Database
Shiamak Cooper¹, Sanjana Thimmannagari², Ranjini Vengilote² and Asim Khanfar², ¹Rochester General Hospital, Irondequoit, NY, ²Rochester General Hospital, Rochester, NY
Background/Purpose: Gout is the most common form of inflammatory arthropathy, with a prevalence ranging from 0.1% to approximately 10% worldwide. Despite a well-established association between…
Abstract Number: 0231 • ACR Convergence 2025
A Quality Improvement Project to Explore the Implications of the 2020 ACR Gout Guideline Recommendations for HLA-B5801 Testing
Sarah Anstett¹, Brian Coburn², Carlos Garcia-Gonzalez³, Max Krall¹, Akash Gupta⁴, Riya Madan⁵, Stephanie Lee⁶, Tania Aguila¹, Adam Mayer⁷, Elise Breed², Preethi Thomas⁸, Nora Sandorfi¹, Anupama Shahane¹ and Rachel Dayno¹, ¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ³University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, ⁴Hospital of University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁵University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, ⁶University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, ⁷University of Pennsylvania/Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, ⁸UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Conshohocken, PA
Background/Purpose: The presence of the HLA-B5801 allele increases the risk of life-threatening allopurinol hypersensitivity syndrome (AHS). The 2020 ACR gout management guidelines conditionally recommend HLA-B5801…
Abstract Number: 0645 • ACR Convergence 2024
Mortality and Ethnicity in Adults with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis
Samir Patel¹, Zijing Yang¹, deepak Nagra¹, Maryam Adas², Mark Russell¹, Sam Norton¹, Chris Wincup³, James Galloway⁴, Kate Bramham² and Patrick Gordon⁵, ¹King's College London, London, England, United Kingdom, ²King's College London, London, United Kingdom, ³King's College Hospital, London, United Kingdom, ⁴Centre for Rheumatic Diseases, King's College London, London, United Kingdom, ⁵nhs, London, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Ethnicity and health outcomes are intrinsically interrelated, although mechanisms are complex. Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a disease with higher incidence in non-White populations…
Abstract Number: 1907 • ACR Convergence 2024
Community-Engaged Curriculum Development Using Racial Justice and Biomedical Lenses to Address COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Black Individuals with Rheumatologic Conditions
Eseosa Osaghae¹, Greta Sirek², Tonya Roberson³, Mia Chandler⁴, Ariel Childs⁵, Monica Crespo-Bosque⁶, Gina Curry⁷, Amar Dhand⁸, Mary Dollear⁹, Alice Eggleston¹⁰, Nnenna Ezeh², Dieufort Fleurissaint¹¹, Denice Garrett¹², Gail Granville¹³, Muriel Jean-Jacques¹, Elena Losina², Holly Milaeger¹, Lutfiyya Muhammad¹⁴, Mary Ann Nelson¹⁵, Chisa Nosamiefan¹⁶, Bisola Ojikutu¹⁷, Neil Pillai¹, Marie Jacques Toussaint¹⁸, Mary Beth Son¹⁹, Ana Valle², Jessica Williams²⁰, Michael York²¹, Karen Mancera-Cuevas²², Candace Feldman² and rosalind Ramsey-Goldman¹, ¹Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Governors State University College of Health and Human Services, University Park, IL, ⁴Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁵Vital CxNs, Boston, MA, ⁶Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, ⁷University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ⁸Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁹Lupus Society of Illinois, Chicago, IL, ¹⁰Alliance Chicago, Chicago, IL, ¹¹True Alliance Center, Inc, Boston, MA, ¹²Action for Bridgeport Community Development, Inc., Bridgeport, CT, ¹³Women of Courage, Inc, Boston, MA, ¹⁴Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ¹⁵Mission Hill Health Movement Inc, Roxbury, MA, ¹⁶The Labalaba Foundation for Lupus Awareness and Advocacy, South Weymouth, MA, ¹⁷Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston Public Health Commission,, Boston, MA, ¹⁸True Alliance Center, Inc., Boston, MA, ¹⁹Boston Children's Hospital, Brookline, MA, ²⁰Emory School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, ²¹Boston University, Boston, MA, ²²National Health Council, Washington, DC
Background/Purpose: Despite the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines and the benefits for individuals with rheumatic conditions, racial inequities in uptake persist. We initiated a trial that…
Abstract Number: 0847 • ACR Convergence 2024
Sex and Race-Specific Distributions in Medial Fixed Joint Space Width in Healthy Knees from Three Longitudinal Cohorts
Kent Kwoh¹, Rongrong Tang², Erin Ashbeck³, Edward Bedrick⁴, Yvonne Golightly⁵, Amanda Nelson⁶, Tuhina Neogi⁷, Yong Ge⁸, Zong-Ming Li², Jean Liew⁷, Xiaoxiao Sun⁹, Justin Crawmer¹⁰ and Jeffery Duryea¹¹, ¹University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, ²University of Arizona Arthritis Center, University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson, Tucson, AZ, ³University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, Tucson, AZ, ⁴Department of Epidemiology andBiostatistics, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, ⁵University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ⁶University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁷Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ⁸Department of Information Sciences, Eller College of Manangement, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, ⁹Department of Biostatistics, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, ¹⁰BWH, Boston, MA, ¹¹Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Quantitative radiographic joint space width (JSW) is often used as ameasure of structural outcomes in randomized controlled trials of knee OA (KOA). How JSW…
Abstract Number: 1914 • ACR Convergence 2024
Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Prevalence of Disease Features in Systemic Sclerosis
Harry Hurley¹, Davina Chen², Xianhong Xie³, Manpreet Parmar⁴ and Bibi Ayesha⁵, ¹Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Maplewood, NJ, ²Montefiore Medical Center, New Rochelle, NY, ³Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, ⁴Montefiore, Bronx, NY, ⁵Montefiore Medical Center, Metuchen, NJ
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a chronic, systemic autoimmune disease with a higher prevalence among women and racial/ethnic minority groups in the US. Despite the…
Abstract Number: 0115 • ACR Convergence 2024
Regional and Ethnoracial Differences Among Antiphospholipid Antibody-Positive Patients with No Other Systemic Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases: Results from AntiPhospholipid Syndrome Alliance for Clinical Trials and InternatiOnal Networking (APS ACTION) Registry
Elena Gkrouzman¹, Ann E. Clarke², Maria Tektonidou³, Vittorio Pengo⁴, Savino Sciascia⁵, Jose Pardos-Gea⁶, Nina Kello⁷, Diana Paredes-Ruiz⁸, Mª Angeles Aguirre-Zamorano⁹, H Michael Belmont¹⁰, Paul Fortin¹¹, Guilherme Ramires de Jesús¹², Tatsuya Atsumi¹³, Zhuoli Zhang¹⁴, Maria Efthymiou¹⁵, David Branch¹⁶, Giulia Pazzola¹⁷, Laura Andreoli¹⁸, Ali Duarte-Garcia¹⁹, Esther Rodriguez-Almaraz²⁰, Michelle Petri²¹, Ricard Cervera²², Bahar Artim Esen²³, Guillermo Pons-Estel²⁴, Hui Shi²⁵, Jason Knight²⁶, Rohan Willis²⁷, Pierluigi Meroni²⁸, Maria Laura Bertolaccini²⁹, Hannah Cohen³⁰, Robert Roubey³¹, Danieli Andrade³² and Doruk Erkan³³, and on behalf of APS ACTION, ¹University of Massachusetts, Westborough, MA, ²Division of Rheumatology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ³National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, ⁴Thrombosis Research Laboratory, Department of Cardio-Thoracic-Vascular Sciences and Public Health, University of Padova, Padova, Italy, ⁵University of Turin, Torino, Turin, Italy, ⁶Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain, ⁷Northwell Health, Brooklyn, NY, ⁸Autoimmune Diseases Research Unit. Biocruces Bizkaia Health Research Institute, Baracaldo, Spain, ⁹IMIBIC/Reina Sofia Hospital/University of Cordoba, CÓRDOBA, Andalucia, Spain, ¹⁰NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, ¹¹Centre ARThrite - CHU de Québec - Université Laval, Quebec, QC, Canada, ¹²Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, ¹³Department of Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Sapporo, Japan, ¹⁴Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China, ¹⁵University College London, London, United Kingdom, ¹⁶University of Utah and Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT, ¹⁷Rheumatology Unit, Azienda USL IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy, ¹⁸University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy, ¹⁹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²⁰Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain, ²¹Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Timonium, MD, ²²Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ²³Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Istanbul, Turkey, ²⁴CREAR, Rosario, Argentina, ²⁵Department of Rheumatology and lmmunology, Ruijin Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, Shanghai, China (People's Republic), ²⁶University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²⁷University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, ²⁸IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano 100%, Cusano Milanino, Milan, Milan, Italy, ²⁹King's College London, London, United Kingdom, ³⁰University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom, ³¹Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, ³²University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, ³³Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: The APS ACTION Registry was created to study long-term outcomes in persistently antiphospholipid antibody (aPL)-positive patients with and without other systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases…
Abstract Number: 0976 • ACR Convergence 2024
Assessment of Current Trends in Demographic and Clinical Characteristics of Male Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis in North India
BHARAT KUMAR SINGH¹ and Seema Singh², ¹CK Birla Hospitals, Jaipur, JAIPUR, Rajasthan, India, ²RAJASTHAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES, JAIPUR, Rajasthan, India
Background/Purpose: Gender differences in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are well-established, with women more prone to developing RA than men. However, understanding the impact of gender on…
Abstract Number: 1915 • ACR Convergence 2024
Patient-reported Difficulties Regarding Reproductive Health Discussions in an Urban Outpatient Setting
Martha Delgado¹, Cassidy Hernandez-Tamayo², Melissa Wilson² and Leanna Wise³, ¹Los Angeles General Hospital/Keck Medicine of USC, Costa Mesa, CA, ²Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, ³LAGMC/Keck Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA
Background/Purpose: Timely reproductive health conversations in the rheumatology outpatient setting are essential for optimal maternal-fetal health; however, the literature suggests that these conversations happen for…
Abstract Number: 0144 • ACR Convergence 2024
More Than a Monolith: Disaggregating Rheumatoid Arthritis Prevalence Among Asian American Subgroups
John Chen¹, Tanya Selvam¹, Jeanne Darbinian², Christopher Macko¹, Nirmala Ramalingam², Joan Lo² and Lucy Liu², ¹Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center, Oakland, CA, ²Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a disabling, autoimmune condition affecting up to as many as 17.6 million individuals worldwide. Epidemiologic evidence in the United States…
Abstract Number: 0993 • ACR Convergence 2024
Pulmonary Complications and Mortality Trends in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Aged 65 and Older in the United States: A CDC WONDER Database Analysis
Muhammad Naveed¹, Rabia Iqbal¹, Kishan Patel², Ahila Ali¹, Simran Bhimani³, Bazil Azeem⁴, Yash Deshpande³, Muhammad Omer Rehan¹, Faizan Ahmed⁵, Hussain Haider Shah¹ and Nouman Shafique⁶, ¹Dow Medical College, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan, ²Riverside Community Hospital, Riverside, CA, ³The Wright Center for graduate medical education, Scranton, PA, ⁴Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Medical College Liyari, Karachi, Pakistan, ⁵Ameer-ud-Din Medical College, Lahore, Pakistan, ⁶AdventHealth Orlando, Orlando, FL
Background/Purpose: Pulmonary complications in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are an important cause of mortality among older adults. This study analyzes trends and demographic disparities in mortality…
Abstract Number: 1920 • ACR Convergence 2024
Admixture Mapping and Gene-Based Analysis Identifies Rare Variants in Genes in the IL-13 and TGFβ Signaling Pathways in African Americans with Systemic Sclerosis
Jordan Hicks¹, Daniel Shriner², Ami Shah³, Maureen Mayes⁴, Ayo P. Doumatey², Amy R. Bentley¹, Robyn Domsic⁵, Thomas Medsger, Jr⁶, Paula Ramos⁷, Richard Silver⁸, Virginia Steen⁹, John Varga¹⁰, Vivien Hsu¹¹, Lesley Ann Saketkoo¹², Dinesh Khanna¹⁰, Elena Schiopu¹³, Jessica Gordon¹⁴, Lindsey Criswell¹⁵, Heather Gladue¹⁶, Chris Derk¹⁷, Elana Bernstein¹⁸, S. Louis Bridges¹⁴, Victoria Shanmugam¹⁹, Lorinda Chung²⁰, Suzanne Kafaja²¹, Reem Jan²², Marcin Trojanowski²³, Avram Goldberg²⁴, Benjamin Korman²⁵, James W. Thomas²⁶, Elaine Remmers²⁷, Adebowale Adeyemo², Charles Rotimi², Fredrick Wigley²⁸, Francesco Boin²⁹, Daniel Kastner³⁰ and Pravitt Gourh³¹, ¹National institute of Health, Bethesda, MD, ²Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ³Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University, Ellicott City, MD, ⁴UTHealth Houston Division of Rheumatology, Houston, TX, ⁵Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁶Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Verona, PA, ⁷Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ⁸Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ⁹Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, ¹⁰University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ¹¹Department of Medicine, Rheumatology Division, Rutgers-RWJ Medical School, South Plainfield, NJ, ¹²New Orleans Scleroderma and Sarcoidosis Patient Care and Research Center, Louisiana State University and Tulane University Medical Schools, New Orleans, LA, ¹³Division of Rheumatology, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, Martinez, GA, ¹⁴Division of Rheumatology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, ¹⁵Genomics of Autoimmune Rheumatic Disease Section, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, Bethesda, MD, ¹⁶Arthritis & Osteoporosis Consultants of the Carolinas, Charlotte, NC, ¹⁷Division of Rheumatology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ¹⁸Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, ¹⁹NIH Office of Autoimmune Disease Research in the Office of Research on Women's Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, Bethesda, MD, ²⁰Stanford University, Woodside, CA, ²¹Division of Rheumatology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ²²Section of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ²³Department of Rheumatology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ²⁴NYU Langone Health - NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases, Lake Success, NY, ²⁵University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, ²⁶NIH Intramural Sequencing Center, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ²⁷Medical Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ²⁸Johns Hopkins University, Division of Rheumatology, Baltimore, MD, Baltimore, MD, ²⁹Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ³⁰National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD, ³¹National Institutes of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: There are significant racial disparities in systemic sclerosis (SSc), with an increased disease burden and worse outcomes among African American (AA) individuals. Reasons for…

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