Abstracts tagged "Rheumatoid arthritis (RA)"

Abstract Number: 2053 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Risk of Non-vertebral Fracture in Gout Compared to Rheumatoid Arthritis
Soo-Kyung Cho¹, Jun Liu ² and Seoyoung C. Kim ², ¹Hanyang University Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ²Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston
Background/Purpose: Gout is a common inflammatory arthritis, characterized by hyperuricemia leading to crystallization of uric acid in joints. Proinflammatory cytokines have been known as an…
Abstract Number: 2250 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Contribution of Personality Traits, Psychological Factors and Health Related Quality of Life on Medication Adherence in Patients with RA
Kyung Min Ko¹, Su-Jin Moon ², Jung Hee Koh ¹ and Jun-Ki Min ¹, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Bucheon St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, the Catholic University of Korea, Bucheon, Republic of Korea, ²Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Uijeongbu St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, the Catholic University of Korea, Uijeongbu, Republic of Korea
Background/Purpose: Non-adherence to long-term treatment is important in Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), as it can result in inadequate disease control and make rheumatologist to change the…
Abstract Number: 2312 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Lymphoproliferative Disorders in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: Results from Japanese Multi-institutional Study Using Research Electronic Data Capture
Suguru Honda¹, Ryoko Sakai ², Masako Majima ¹, Naoko Konda ¹, Hideto Takada ¹, Kazuhiko Yamamoto ³, Tsutomu Takeuchi ⁴ and Masayoshi Harigai ¹, ¹Department of Rheumatology, Tokyo Women's Medical University School of Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan, ²Department of Rheumatology, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan, ³Riken Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Kanagawa, Japan, ⁴Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Background/Purpose: The risk of lymphoma is higher among patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) compared to general populations 1. Methotrexate (MTX), the anchor drug for RA,…
Abstract Number: 2330 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Factors Associated with Differing Types of Heart Failure in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Sicong Huang¹, Tianrun Cai ², Daniel Solomon ³, Zeling He ¹, Kumar Dahal ², Chuan Hong ⁴, Andrew Cagan ⁵, Seoyoung C. Kim ⁶, Jacob Joseph ⁷, Tianxi Cai ⁸ and Katherine Liao ², ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, ³Brigham and Women´s Hospital, Div. of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Boston, MA, ⁴Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁵Research Information Science and Computing, Partners Healthcare, Boston, ⁶Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, ⁷Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁸Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston
Background/Purpose: For patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), heart failure (HF) is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality. HF is further classified into 2 subtypes…
Abstract Number: 2351 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Withdrawal of Conventional Synthetic Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs in the Sarilumab Open-Label EXTEND Study: Efficacy and Safety Analysis
Jeffrey Curtis¹, Yong Lin ², Karthinathan Thangavelu ³, Marina Stanislav ⁴, Gregory St John ⁵, Antonio Gómez-Centeno ⁶, Carlo Selmi ⁷, Thomas Huizinga ⁸, José Antonio Maldonado-Cocco ⁹, Marwan Bukhari ¹⁰ and Frank Buttgereit ¹¹, ¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²Sanofi, Bridgewater, NJ, ³Sanofi Genzyme, Boston, MA, ⁴V.A. Nasonova Research Rheumatology Institute, Moscow, Russia, ⁵Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Tarrytown, NY, ⁶Corporació Sanitària Parc Taulí, Barcelona, Spain, ⁷Humanitas Research Hospital, University of Milan, Milan, Italy, ⁸Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁹Buenos Aires University School of Medicine, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ¹⁰Lancaster University Medical School, Lancaster, United Kingdom, ¹¹Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Background/Purpose: The EXTEND open-label extension study (NCT01146652) is collecting data on long-term treatment of RA with sarilumab as monotherapy and in combination with conventional synthetic…
Abstract Number: 2377 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Methotrexate Discontinuation and Dose Decreases After Therapy with Tocilizumab: Results from the Corrona Rheumatoid Arthritis Registry
Dimitrios Pappas¹, Taylor Blachley ², Steve Zlotnick ³, Jennie Best ³, Kelechi Emeanuru ² and Joel Kremer ⁴, ¹Columbia University, New York, NY, ²Corrona, LLC, Waltham, MA, ³Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA, ⁴Albany Medical College and The Center for Rheumatology; Corrona, LLC, Albany, NY
Background/Purpose: Methotrexate (MTX) is frequently prescribed with biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs. Evidence has shown that tocilizumab (TCZ) monotherapy is effective in the treatment of patients…
Abstract Number: 2408 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
A Prospective Analysis of Factors Impacting Medication Decision-Making in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Elizabeth Salt¹, Amanda Wiggins ², Kristine Lohr ² and Mary Kay Rayens ², ¹University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, ²University of Kentucky, Lexington
Background/Purpose: Prior research suggests that medication decision-making in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients is affected by disease activity, satisfaction with care, trust in their health care…
Abstract Number: 2847 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Testing Different Thresholds for Patient Global Assessment in Defining ACR-EULAR Boolean Remission Criteria for RA
Paul Studenic¹, David Felson ², Maarten de Wit ³, Farideh Alasti ⁴, Tanja Stamm ¹, Josef Smolen ¹ and Daniel Aletaha ¹, ¹Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ²Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Rheumatology, Boston, ³Department of Medical Humanities, Amsterdam Public Health (APH), Amsterdam University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ⁴Medical University of Vienna, Department of Medicine III, Division of Rheumatology, Vienna, Austria
Background/Purpose: The patient global assessment (PGA) is a core set variable to assess RA disease activity. It is strongly linked to patient-reported pain and is…
Abstract Number: 51 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Cigarette Smoking Has Different Impacts on ACPA and RF Production Depending on Shared Epitope Allele Status in Japanese RA Patients; A Study with the Two Independent Japanese Cohorts (IORRA and KURAMA)
Yuki Ishikawa¹, Motomu Hashimoto ², Katsunori Ikari ³, Koichiro Ohmura ⁴, Masao Tanaka ⁴, Hiromu Ito ⁴, Atsuo Taniguchi ³, Hisashi Yamanaka ³, Tsuneyo Mimori ⁴ and Chikashi Terao ⁵, ¹Joslin Diabes Center, Boston, MA, ²Department of Advanced Medicine for Rheumatic Diseases, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan, ³Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan, ⁴Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, ⁵RIKEN, Tokyo, Japan
Background/Purpose: In rheumatoid arthritis (RA), cigarette smoking affects both rheumatoid factor (RF) and anti-citrullinated cyclic peptide/protein antibody (ACPA) production, but its association in relation to…
Abstract Number: 184 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
No Increased Risk of Incidence Diabetes in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Compared to Patients Without RA
Yinzhu Jin ¹, Sarah Chen ², Jun Liu ¹, Rishi Desai ³ and Seoyoung C. Kim¹, ¹Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, ³Brigham and Women's hospital, Boston
Background/Purpose: Some previously published studies suggest that patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are at an increased risk of developing diabetes mellitus. We examined the risk…
Abstract Number: 260 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Rheumatoid Arthritis Associated with Longer Hospital Stays in Patients Admitted with Venous Thromboembolism: A Nationwide Analysis 2010-2014
Shraddha Jatwani¹, Karan Jatwani ² and Karan Chugh ¹, ¹St. Vincent Evansville, Evansville, ²Mount Sinai West - St Luke’s Hospital, New York
Background/Purpose: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a major health problem and can be potentially fatal when complicated by lethal pulmonary embolism (PE). Previous hospital-based studies have…
Abstract Number: 443 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Validation of a Risk Perception Questionnaire Developed for Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Irazú Contreras-Yáñez ¹, Pilar Lavielle ², Patricia Clark ³ and Virginia Pascual-Ramos¹, ¹Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición "Salvador Zubirán", Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico, ²Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Hospital de Especialidades, Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, Mexico City, Mexico, ³Head of the Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez-Facultad de Medicina UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
Background/Purpose: Treatment recommendations directed to rheumatoid arthritis patients (RA) may be more easily adopted if they are patient-centered. The adoption of health behaviors is associated…
Abstract Number: 468 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Effect of Body Mass Index on the Disease Activity of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis in a Gender Specific Manner and Association of Respective Serum C – Reactive Protein Levels with the Body’s Inflammatory Status
Shumaila Iqbal¹, Linda Burns ², Joseph Grisanti ² and Cassandra Zhi ³, ¹University at Buffalo, Sisters of Charity Hospital, Buffalo, ²Buffalo Rheumatology and Medicine, Buffalo, ³Dexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Background/Purpose: Current literature evaluating the effect of high Body Mass Index (BMI) on the disease activity of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is mixed as…
Abstract Number: 505 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Low-grade Total Rheumatoid Arthritis MRI Scoring System Can Predict Successful Half-dose Reduction of MTX in Patients with RA in Clinical Remission
Takeshi Suzuki¹, Marina Uchida ², Shoshi Shinagawa ², Machiko Mizushima ³, Takayasu Ando ³, Yutaka Gotou ³, Tomohiko Shibata ² and Kimito Kawahata ⁴, ¹Division of Rheumatology and Allergology, Department of Internal Medicine, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan, ²Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Yokohama City Seibu Hospital, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, ³Division of Rheumatology and Allergology, Department of Internal Medicine, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan, ⁴Rheumatology and Allergology, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Background/Purpose: It has been recommended that tapering csDMARDs should be considered if a patient is in persistent remission. However, methods for tapering csDMARDs, including MTX,…
Abstract Number: 628 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Pain Perception and Opiate Use Among Patients with Inflammatory Arthritis
Alexis Ogdie¹, Sofia Pedro ² and Kaleb Michaud ³, ¹Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Forward, The National Databank for Rheumatic Diseases, Wichita, KS, ³FORWARD, The National Databank for Rheumatic Diseases and University of Nebraska Medical Center, Wichita, KS
Background/Purpose: Pain is the most common symptom among patients with inflammatory arthritis (IA) and residual pain is common in patients IA despite appropriate treatment. Opiate…

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