Abstracts tagged "rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and rheumatologic practice"

Abstract Number: 504 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2018
Views of Primary Care Physicians and Rheumatologists Regarding Screening and Management of Hyperlipidemia Among Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Iris Navarro-Millán^1,2, Anna Cornelius-Schecter², Ronan O'Beirne³, Melanie Morris³, Susan Goodman¹, Andrea Cherrington³, Liana Fraenkel⁴, Jeffrey R. Curtis³ and Monika M. Safford², ¹Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ²Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ³University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁴Yale University, New Haven, CT
Background/Purpose: Screening and management of hyperlipidemia in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is suboptimal, despite RA patients’ high risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality. Our purpose was…