Abstracts tagged "risk factors"

Abstract Number: 1057 • ACR Convergence 2023
Melanoma and Combination Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors Are More Clearly Associated with the Development of Chronic Inflammatory Arthritis Than Pre-existing Autoimmune Disease: A Cross-Sectional Study of Administrative Health Data
Alexandra Ladouceur¹, Marie Hudson², Hassan Behlouli³, Jeffrey Curtis⁴, Louise Pilote³ and Sasha Bernatsky³, ¹Department of Rheumatology of McGill University and CHU-Bordeaux, Montréal, QC, Canada, ²McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada, ³Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁴University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) improve survival in many malignancies1, by augmenting the immune system's anti-tumor response. However, ICI can result in immune-related adverse events…
Abstract Number: 1674 • ACR Convergence 2023
Severe Infections in Patients with VEXAS Syndrome: A Study from the French VEXAS Group
Benjamin de Valence de Minardiere¹, Marion Delaune², Yann Nguyen³, Vincent Jachiet⁴, Mael Heiblig⁵, Alexis Jean⁶, Pierrick Henneton⁷, stanislas Riescher-tuczkiewicz⁸, Philippe Guilpain⁷, Hervé Lobbes⁹, Guillaume Le Guenno¹⁰, Nicolas Schleinitz¹¹, Valentin Lacombe¹², Vincent Langlois¹³, Roderau Outh¹⁴, Julien Vinit¹⁵, Jean-Philippe Martellosio¹⁶, Paul Decker¹⁷, Alexandre Vlakos¹⁸, Thomas Moulinet¹⁹, Yannick Dieudonne²⁰, Adrien Bigot²¹, Louis Terriou²², Bertrand De Maleprade²³, Guillaume Denis²⁴, Jonathan Broner²⁵, Marie Kostine²⁶, Sébastien Humbert²⁷, Benjamin Terrier²⁸, Sophie Georgin-Lavialle²⁹, Olivier Fain³⁰, Arsène Mekinian¹, Marjolaine MORGAND¹, Thibault Comont² and Jerome Hadjadj¹, ¹Department of Internal Medicine, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, AP-HP, Paris, France, ²Toulouse University Hospital, Toulouse, France, ³Department of Internal Medicine, Hôpital Beaujon, AP-HP, Clichy, France., Montmorency, France, ⁴Service de médecine interne et Inflammation-Immunopathology-Biotherapy Department (DMU i3), Sorbonne Université, AP-HP, Hôpital Saint Antoine, Paris, France, ⁵Hematology, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon-Sud Hospital, Pierre-Bénite, France, ⁶Internal Medicine Department, Bordeaux University, Faculty of Medicine, Bordeaux University Hospital, Bordeaux, France, ⁷CHU Montpellier, Montpellier, France, ⁸CHU de Nantes, Nantes, France, ⁹CHU de Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, France, ¹⁰Internal Medicine Department, Clermont-Ferrand University, Faculty of Medicine, Estaing University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand, France, ¹¹Aix Marseille university, AP-HM, Marseille, France, ¹²Internal Medicine Department, Anger Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand, France, ¹³Service de Médecine Interne, Hôpital Jacques Monod, Le Havre, France, ¹⁴Internal Medicine Department, Perpignan Hospital Center, Perpignan, France, ¹⁵Service de Médecine Interne, CH William Morey, Chalon sur Saône, France., Chalon sur Saône, France, ¹⁶Service de médecine interne, maladies infectieuses et tropicales, CHU de Poitiers, Poitiers, France, ¹⁷Nancy hospital, France, Nancy, France, ¹⁸Vesoul Hospital, Vesoul, France, ¹⁹Department of Internal Medicine, Centre hospitalier universitaire de Nancy, Nancy, France, ²⁰Department of Clinical Immunology and Internal Medicine, National Reference Centre for Systemic Autoimmune Diseases (CNR RESO), Strasbourg University Hospital, Strasbourg, France, ²¹Internal Medicine Department, Tours University, Faculty of Medicine, Tours University Hospital, Tours, France, ²²Service de Médecine Interne et Immunologie Clinique, CHU Lille, Lille, France, ²³Rouen hospital, France, Rouen, France, ²⁴Service d'hématologie, CH de Rochefort, Rochefort, France, ²⁵CHU de Nimes, Nimes, France, ²⁶Bordeaux University Hospital, Bordeaux, France, ²⁷Besançon University Hospital, Besançon, France, ²⁸Department of Internal Medicine, Hôpital Cochin, AP-HP, Paris, France, ²⁹AP-HP, Tenon hospital, Paris, France, ³⁰Hopital SAINT ANTOINE APHP, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: VEXAS (Vacuoles, E1 Enzyme, X-Linked, Autoinflammatory, Somatic) syndrome is an autoinflammatory monogenic disease caused by inactivating somatic mutations in the UBA1 gene and characterized…
Abstract Number: 2267 • ACR Convergence 2023
Explainable Machine Learning to Predict Hospitalized Infection in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Hsin-Hua Chen¹ and Wen-Nan Huang², ¹Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, ²Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Veterans General Hospital, College of Medicine National Chung Hsing University, Department of Business Administration, Ling-Tung University, Taichung, Taiwan; School of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan
Background/Purpose: Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have a 1.85-fold higher risk of all-cause mortality and a 2.74 fold higher risk of infection-related mortality compared…
Abstract Number: 2588 • ACR Convergence 2023
Updated Analyses of Cancer Incidence and Risk Factors in a Large International SLE Cohort
Sasha Bernatsky¹, Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman², Murray Urowitz³, John G. Hanly⁴, Caroline Gordon⁵, Michelle Petri⁶, Ellen Ginzler⁷, Daniel Wallace⁸, Sang-Cheol Bae⁹, Juanita Romero-Diaz¹⁰, Mary Anne Dooley¹¹, Christine Peschken¹², David Isenberg¹³, Anisur Rahman¹⁴, Susan Manzi¹⁵, Soren Jacobsen¹⁶, S. Sam Lim¹⁷, Ronald van Vollenhoven¹⁸, Ola Nived¹⁹, Diane L. Kamen²⁰, Cynthia Aranow²¹, Jill Buyon²², Guillermo Ruiz-Irastorza²³, Francisco Sanchez-Guerrero²⁴, Dafna Gladman²⁵, Paul R. Fortin²⁶, Jennifer LF Lee²⁷, Luck Lukusa²⁷, Graciela S Alarcón²⁸, Joan Merrill²⁹, Kenneth Kalunian³⁰, Manuel Ramos-Casals³¹, Kristjan Steinsson³², Asad Zoma³³, Anca Askanase³⁴, Munther Khamashta³⁵, Ian Bruce³⁶, Murat Inanç³⁷ and Ann Clarke³⁸, ¹Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada, ²Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ³Schroeder Arthritis Institute, Krembil Research Institute; University of Toronto Lupus Clinic; Division of Rheumatology, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, ⁵Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, ⁶Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Timonium, MD, ⁷SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, NY, ⁸Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁹Hanyang University Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases and Hanyang University Institute for Rheumatology Research, Department of Rheumatology, Seoul, South Korea, ¹⁰Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran, Mexico City, Mexico, ¹¹Raleigh Neurology Associates, Chapel Hill, NC, ¹²University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ¹³University College London, London, United Kingdom, ¹⁴Centre for Rheumatology, Division of Medicine, University College London, London, United Kingdom, ¹⁵Lupus Center of Excellence, Autoimmunity Institute, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, ¹⁶Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark, ¹⁷Emory University, Atlanta, GA, ¹⁸Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ¹⁹Department of Rheumatology, Institution of Clinical Sciences, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden, ²⁰Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ²¹Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, ²²NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, ²³Hospital Universitario Cruces, Barakaldo, Spain, ²⁴University Health Network/Sinai Health system, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²⁵Schroeder Arthritis Institute, Krembil Research Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²⁶Centre ARThrite - CHU de Québec - Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada, ²⁷RI-MUHC, Montreal, QC, Canada, ²⁸Heersink School of Medicine. The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²⁹Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ³⁰University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, ³¹Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ³²Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland, ³³Lanarkshire Centre for Rheumatology and Hairmyres Hospital, East Kilbride, East Kilbride, United Kingdom, ³⁴Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, ³⁵GSK Gulf, Medical Affairs Department, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, ³⁶University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ³⁷Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey, ³⁸University of Calgary, Division of Rheumatology, Cumming School of Medicine, Calgary, AB, Canada
Background/Purpose: Many studies of cancer risk in SLE are limited by small sample size or use of administrative data, which rely on billing code diagnoses…
Abstract Number: 0394 • ACR Convergence 2023
Higher Intakes of Red Meat Are Associated with an Increased Risk of Developing Seropositive but Not Seronegative Rheumatoid Arthritis – Results from a Nested Case-Control Study
Rebecka Teresia Bäcklund¹, Isabel Drake¹, Ulf Bergström¹, Michele Compagno², Emily Sonestedt¹ and Carl Turesson¹, ¹Lund University, Malmö, Sweden, ²Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Background/Purpose: Healthy eating habits might prevent the development of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We aimed to examine the relation between adherence to dietary recommendations and the…
Abstract Number: 1063 • ACR Convergence 2023
Impact of Aging on Rheumatic Immune-related Adverse Events Secondary to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: Experience from the Canadian Research Group of Rheumatology in Immuno-Oncology (CanRIO)
Jenny Li¹, Marie Hudson², Carrie Ye³, Janet Roberts⁴, Aurore Fifi-Mah⁵, May Choi⁵, Sabrina Hoa⁶, Thomas Appleton⁷, Janet Pope⁷, Nancy Maltez⁸, Lourdes Gonzalez Arreola⁹, Anthony Obrzut⁹ and Shahin Jamal¹⁰, ¹University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ²McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada, ³University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ⁴Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, ⁵University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ⁶University of Montreal, Brossard, QC, Canada, ⁷University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, ⁸The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ⁹Arthritis Research Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ¹⁰Vancouver Coastal Health, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Background/Purpose: Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) have revolutionized cancer therapy. Their use is complicated by development of immune-related adverse effects (irAEs), including rheumatic irAEs (Rh-irAE). Aging…
Abstract Number: 1675 • ACR Convergence 2023
Survival in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Early Breast Cancer Treated with Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitors
Maria Suarez-Almazor¹, Juan Ruiz², Xiudong Lei², Chi-Fang Wu², Hui Zhao², Suja Rajan³, Heather Lin² and Sharon Giordano², ¹MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, ²The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, ³University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, TX
Background/Purpose: There have been concerns about the use of tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and concomitant cancer. Few studies…
Abstract Number: 2268 • ACR Convergence 2023
Mental Illness and Outcomes of COVID-19 in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Global Multicenter Cohort Study
Hsin-Hua Chen, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
Background/Purpose: Poor COVID-19 outcomes in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) has been found to be associated with glucocorticoid dose, male sex, older age, mycophenolate,…
Abstract Number: 2600 • ACR Convergence 2023
Clonal Hematopoiesis Is Associated with Giant Cell Arteritis
Background/Purpose: Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is an age-related vasculitis of large and medium vessels. Prior population studies have identified an association between GCA and hematologic…
Abstract Number: 0396 • ACR Convergence 2023
Hydroxychloroquine Is Associated with a Decreased Risk of Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Population-based, Cohort Study
Hsin-Hua Chen¹ and DER-YUAN CHEN², ¹Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, ²Center of Rheumatology, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic autoimmune inflammatory disease characterized by chronic destructive arthritis and extra-articular involvement. Prior studies showed patients with RA had…
Abstract Number: 1074 • ACR Convergence 2023
Baseline Clinical Features, but Not Shared Epitope or HLA B27, Predict Severe Outcomes for Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-induced Inflammatory Arthritis
Laura Cappelli¹, omer Kamal², Michelle Jones³, Clifton Bingham⁴ and Ami Shah⁵, ¹Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²St. Agnes Hospital, Baltimore, MD, ³Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁴Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ⁵Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Ellicott City, MD
Background/Purpose: Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) can cause inflammatory arthritis (IA) of varying severity. Many patients with ICI-IA require immunosuppression beyond corticosteroids, but there is no…
Abstract Number: 1685 • ACR Convergence 2023
SLE Disease Activity Is a More Important Risk Factor Than Immunosuppression for Acquiring Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Infection in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients
Zehra Kazmi¹, Carlos Lorenzo² and Agustin Escalante³, ¹University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, ²UT Heath San Antonio, Shavano Park, TX, ³UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Background/Purpose: SLE patients have increased rates of HPV infection and cervical cancer. Although some factors are recognized for HPV infection in SLE, the relationship with…
Abstract Number: 2289 • ACR Convergence 2023
Short and Long Term Outcomes of Patients with Pure Membranous Lupus Nephritis Compared to Patients with Proliferative Disease
Fadi Kharouf¹, Juan Pablo Diaz Martinez², Dafna Gladman³ and Zahi Touma⁴, ¹University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Schroeder Arthritis Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Schroeder Arthritis Institute, Krembil Research Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
b>Background/Purpose: Patients with pure membranous lupus nephritis (LN) are known to have a different disease course than those with proliferative disease. The aim of this…
Abstract Number: 0406 • ACR Convergence 2023
Obesity Is a Risk Factor for Poor Response to Treatment in Early Rheumatoid Arthritis – a NORD-STAR Spin-Off Study
Violetta Dubovyk¹, Gerdur Maria Grondal², Bjorn Gudbjornsson³, Espen A Haavardsholm⁴, Marte Schrumpf Heiberg⁴, Merete Hetland⁵, Kim Hørslev-Petersen⁶, Meliha Kapetanovic⁷, Alf Kastbom⁸, John Lampa⁹, Kristina Lend¹⁰, Dan Nordstrom¹¹, Michael Nurmohamed¹², Milad Rizk¹³, Annika Söderbergh¹⁴, Till Uhlig¹⁵, Mikkel Østergaard¹⁶, Ronald van Vollenhoven¹², Anna Rudin¹⁷ and Cristina Maglio¹⁸, ¹University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, ²Department for Rheumatology, Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland, ³Centre for Rheumatology Research, University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland, ⁴Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ⁵Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark, ⁶University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, ⁷Lund University and Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden, ⁸Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, ⁹Stockholm County, Hãsselby, Sweden, ¹⁰Amsterdam UMC, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, ¹¹Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, ¹²Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ¹³Västmanlands Hospital Västerås, Västerås, Sweden, ¹⁴Örebro University Hospital, Örebro, Sweden, ¹⁵Center for Treatment of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases (REMEDY), Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ¹⁶Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Centre for Head and Orthopaedics, Rigshospitalet; University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, ¹⁷Department of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, ¹⁸Institute of Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Background/Purpose: Several therapeutic options are currently available to treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA); however, the response to treatment is highly variable, and not all patients achieve…
Abstract Number: 1078 • ACR Convergence 2023
Outcomes of COVID-19 Infection in Hospitalized Autoimmune Patients and Transplant Patients on Immunosuppression
Yashswee KC¹ and Rochella Ostrowski², ¹Loyola University, Oakpark, IL, ²Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL
Background/Purpose: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can have varying outcomes. Patients with chronic conditions or immunosuppression experience more severe illness. Both organ transplant recipients and patients…

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