Abstracts tagged "rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and seronegative spondyloarthropathy"

Abstract Number: 2559 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Vitamin D insufficiency and Deficiency in Two European Cohorts of Patients with Inflammatory Rheumatic Disorders
Alessandra Vacca¹, Giovanni Porru¹, Grazia Dessole¹, Alessandro Mathieu¹, Catherine Cormier², Yvonne Fulla², Andre Kahan² and Yannick Allanore³, ¹Unit and Chair of Rheumatology, University Hospital of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy, ²Rheumatology A Department, Cochin Hospital, APHP, Paris Descartes University, Paris, France, ³Paris Descartes University, Rheumatology A Department and INSERM U1016, Cochin Hospital, Paris, France
Background/Purpose Vitamin D plays an important role in the modulation of immune system and epidemiologic data indicate low vitamin D levels in autoimmune diseases such…