Abstracts tagged "rheumatoid arthritis"

Abstract Number: 0143 • ACR Convergence 2024
Behavioral Factors and Chronic Conditions Associated with Rheumatoid Arthritis, KNHANES 2010 to 2021
GI HYUN MYUNG and Juwon Lim, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with multiple genetic and environmental factors. In terms of environmental, dietary and lifestyle factors, there have been discrepancies on…
Abstract Number: 0226 • ACR Convergence 2024
Global Ultrasound Scoring Systems for Assessing Synovitis in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Peter Mandl¹, Clara Watschinger¹, Enrico De Lorenzis², Brigitte Wildner³, Lene Terslev⁴, Irina Gessl¹, Helen Keen⁵, Carlos Pineda⁶ and Maria-Antonietta D'Agostino⁷, and OMERACT Ultrasound Working Group, ¹Department of Rheumatology, Medical University of Vienna, vienna, Austria, ²Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Roma, Rome, Italy, ³Central Library, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ⁴Rigshospitalet-Glostrup & COPECARE, Glostrup, Denmark, ⁵University of Western Australia, Daglish, Western Australia, Australia, ⁶Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitacion, Mexico City, Mexico, ⁷Department of Rheumatology, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCSS, Rome, Italy, Rome, Italy
Background/Purpose: Musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSUS) is widely regarded as a valuable tool for assessing the full extent of synovitis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In…
Abstract Number: 0367 • ACR Convergence 2024
Opinions from Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients and Providers on Discontinuing Methotrexate in Stable Disease
Peri Newman¹, Sharon Banks¹, Rayford June², Erik Lehman³, Glennys Smith⁴, Vandana Rai⁴, Nicole Wilson⁴, Nancy Olsen⁵ and Tarun Sharma⁴, ¹Penn State Health, Hershey, PA, ²Penn State College of Medicine/Lebanon VA Medical Center, Hummelstown, PA, ³Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, ⁴Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁵Penn State University/Milton S Hershey, Hershey, PA
Background/Purpose: The 2021 American College of Rheumatology guidelines for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) conditionally recommend a gradual discontinuation of methotrexate (MTX) over biologic discontinuation.…
Abstract Number: 0462 • ACR Convergence 2024
Circulating Mediators of Endothelial Dysfunction as Predictors of Incident Heart Failure in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Tate Johnson¹, Michael Duryee¹, Carlos Hunter¹, Punyasha Roul², Joshua Baker³, grant Cannon⁴, Beth Wallace⁵, Paul Monach⁶, Andreas Reimold⁷, Gail Kerr⁸, Isaac Smith⁹, John Richards¹⁰, Katherine Wysham¹¹, Gary Kunkel¹², Iris Lee¹³, Daniel Anderson¹⁴, Geoffrey Thiele¹, Ted Mikuls¹ and Bryant England¹, ¹University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ²UNMC, Omaha, NE, ³University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴University of Utah and Salt Lake City VA, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁵Michigan Medicine, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁶VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, ⁷Dallas VA Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ⁸Washington DC VAMC/Georgetown and Howard Universities, Washington, DC, ⁹Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC, ¹⁰Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, PA, ¹¹VA PUGET SOUND/UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Seattle, WA, ¹²University of Utah and George E Wahlen VAMC, Salt Lake City, UT, ¹³Washington University in St Louis, Saint Louis, MO, ¹⁴University of Nebraska Medical Center, Durham, NC
Background/Purpose: Endothelial dysfunction, leading to myocardial inflammation and dysfunction, may drive a heightened risk of heart failure (HF) in people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Circulating…
Abstract Number: 0478 • ACR Convergence 2024
Skin Sodium in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: Association with Blood Pressure and Disease Activity
Carolina Ramirez, Annette Oeser, Rachelle Crescenzi, C. Michael Stein and Michelle Ormseth, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
Background/Purpose: Sodium is stored in tissues such as the skin where it may contribute to development and progression of autoimmune diseases and hypertension through activation…
Abstract Number: 0496 • ACR Convergence 2024
Dissecting Early RA Patient Trajectories Through Time-independent Disease State Identification Identifies Distinct Patterns Dissected by Inflammation in Blood or Joints
Nils Steinz¹, Tjardo Maarseveen², Andrew Cope³, John Isaacs⁴, Aaron Winkler⁵, Thomas Huizinga⁶, Yann Abraham⁷ and Rachel Knevel¹, ¹Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ²Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Wormerveer, Netherlands, ³King's College London, London, United Kingdom, ⁴Translational and Clinical Research Institute, NIHR Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre, Newcastle University and The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, ⁵Pfizer Inc., Cambridge, MA, ⁶Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁷Janssen Research and Development, Beerse, Belgium
Background/Purpose: Patients with RA display different trajectories in the improvement of disease activity. Discerning the RA trajectories, how they differ between patients and which factors…
Abstract Number: 0512 • ACR Convergence 2024
Co-stimulatory Blockade Causes Targeted Quantitative and Clonotypic Contractions in Extrafollicular B-cell Subsets in Seropositive RA Patients
Jasmine Shwetar¹, William Rigby², Sladjana Skopelia-Gardner³, Abhimanyu Armarnani¹, Kelly Ruggles¹ and Gregg Silverman¹, ¹NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, ²Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Norwich, VT, ³Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Hanover, NH
Background/Purpose: Of all approved biologic therapies, other than anti-CD20 depletion only CTLA4-Ig/abatacept treatment reduces levels of pathologic autoantibodies. Herein, our primary goal has been to…
Abstract Number: 0530 • ACR Convergence 2024
Long-term Effectiveness of a Lifestyle Intervention for Rheumatoid Arthritis: Two-year Follow-up After the “Plants for Joints” Randomized Clinical Trial
Carlijn Wagenaar¹, Wendy Walrabenstein², Marike van der Leeden², Franktien Turkstra², Jos Twisk³, Maarten Boers³, Henriët van Middendorp⁴, Peter Weijs⁵ and Dirkjan van Schaardenburg⁶, ¹Reade Rheumatology Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ²Reade Center for Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ³Amsterdam UMC location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ⁴Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁵Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ⁶Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: The 16-week Plants for Joints (PFJ) multidisciplinary lifestyle intervention, based on a whole-food plant-based diet, physical activity, and stress management, significantly reduced 28-joint Disease…
Abstract Number: 0801 • ACR Convergence 2024
Neutrophil Activation as a Novel Marker of Lung Disease in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Jia Shi¹, Yang Wu¹, Ting Wang², Chen Yu³, qian wang⁴, Xinping Tian⁵, Mengtao Li⁴, Kristen Demoruelle⁶, Joshua Solomon⁷ and Christian Lood², ¹University of Washington, Seattle, ²University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ³Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Dong Cheng Qu, China (People's Republic), ⁴Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China 2National Clinical Research Center for Dermatologic and Immunologic Diseases (NCRC-DID), Ministry of Science & Technology, Beijing, China, ⁵Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China, ⁶University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Golden, CO, ⁷National Jewish Health, Denver, CO
Background/Purpose: Neutrophil activation is seen in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but its involvement in RA interstitial lung disease (RA-ILD) is not clear. Levels of N-formyl methionine…
Abstract Number: 0896 • ACR Convergence 2024
Identification of Immune Pathways Regulated by a Non-Coding Variant at DNASE1L3/PXK/PDHB
Michelle Morency¹, Taehyeung Kim¹ and Peter Nigrovic², ¹Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Boston Children's Hospital, Brookline, MA
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a prevalent autoimmune disease in which aberrant immune attacks on joints and other tissues leads to permanent and disabling injury.…
Abstract Number: 0947 • ACR Convergence 2024
REX-7117 Is a Highly Potent and Selective Oral STAT3 Inhibitor That Demonstrated Potential Efficacy and Safety Differentiation versus JAK/TYK2 Targeting in Preclinical Models of Inflammatory Arthritis
Alexandra Gardino¹, Neil Bifulco¹, Jeremy Hunt², Rishi Vaswani¹, Donglim Park², Patrick Metz², Ksenya Cohen-Katsenelson², Jeong-Ho Kim², Xia Tian², Aryan Alavi², Ajay Nirula², Daniel Treiber², Brian Hodous¹, Seong Kim³ and Paul Smith², ¹Recludix Pharma, Cambridge, MA, ²Recludix Pharma, San Diego, CA, ³Department of Microbiology and Immunology, LSU Health Shreveport, Shreveport, LA
Background/Purpose: Inhibition of JAK family signaling has translated into clinically meaningful efficacy in rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis and other inflammatory diseases. However, small molecule JAK/TYK2…
Abstract Number: 1015 • ACR Convergence 2024
Performance of a Molecular Signal Response Classifier Predicting Inadequate Response to Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitors in Hispanic Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Viet Bui¹, Miguel Rodriguez² and Sarah Ormseth³, ¹Harbor UCLA Medical Center and The Lundquist Institute, Torrance, CA, ²Texas Arthritis Center, El Paso, TX, ³The Lundquist Institute, Torrance, CA
Background/Purpose: Tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi) are generally the first class of biologic disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) prescribed for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients with…
Abstract Number: 1075 • ACR Convergence 2024
Optimizing Herpes Zoster Vaccination in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Ages 18-49 Years: A Quality Improvement Approach
Akhil Sood¹, Pegah Jahangiri¹, Christy Bill² and Janice Lin¹, ¹Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, ²Stanford Health Care, Palo Alto, CA
Background/Purpose: Patients with rheumatoid arthritis are at increased risk for Herpes Zoster (HZ) infection, which is associated with increased hospitalizations and healthcare resource utilization. Despite…
Abstract Number: 1329 • ACR Convergence 2024
Investigating Predictors of Transfusion in Rheumatoid Arthritis and Osteoarthritis Patients Undergoing Knee Arthroplasty
Stephen Batter¹, Huong Do¹, Dongmei Sun², Ahmed Deeb¹, Trang Bui¹, Jason Blevins¹, Mark Figgie¹, Gwo-Chin Lee¹, J. Alex B. Gibbons³, Bella Mehta⁴, Susan Goodman⁵ and Linda A Russell¹, ¹Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ²Hospital for Special Surgery, Birmingham, AL, ³Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, NY, ⁴Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ⁵Hospital for Special Surgery, New York 10025, NY
Background/Purpose: Use of ambulatory surgery in arthroplasty is increasing, but the need for transfusion mandates hospital admission. Despite the significant drop in transfusion rate linked…
Abstract Number: 1345 • ACR Convergence 2024
Long-term Changes in Coronary Calcium Score Levels Among Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Cohort Study
Cristina Corrales Selaya¹, Nuria Vegas Revenga², Carmen Secada Gómez³, Jose Antonio parra-Blanco⁴, Virginia Portilla-González⁴, Ricardo Blanco-Alonso⁵, Miguel Angel Gonzalez-Gay⁶, ivan Ferraz-Amaro⁷ and alfonso Corrales-Martínez⁸, ¹Rheumatology, Marques de Valdecilla University Hospital. IDIVAL, Santander, Cantabria, Spain, ²Hospital Galdakao- Usansolo, Galdakao, Spain, ³Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain, ⁴Hospital Universitario Marques de Valdecilla, Santander, Cantabria, Spain, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla. IDIVAL, Immunopathology group, Santander, Spain, ⁶University of Cantabria, Fundación Jimenez Díaz, Madrid, Madrid, Spain, ⁷Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canarias, Spain, ⁸Hospital Universitario Marques de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients have an increased risk of subclinical cardiovascular (CV) disease and, consequently, a higher incidence of CV events, compared to the…

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