Abstracts tagged "risk factors"

Abstract Number: 1509 • ACR Convergence 2024
Validation of a Score for the Prediction of Serious Infection in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Data from a Latin American Lupus Cohort
Rosana Quintana¹, Guillermo Pons-Estel², Karen Roberts³, Erika S. Palacios Santillan³, Íñigo Rúa-Figueroa⁴, José María Pego-Reigosa⁵, Pablo Ibañez⁶, Leonel Ariel Berbotto⁷, Maria Constanza Bertolaccini⁸, Marina Laura Micelli⁹, Cecilia Pisoni¹⁰, Vitalina De Souza Barbosa¹¹, Henrique de Ataíde Mariz¹², Francinne Machado Ribeiro¹³, Luciana Parente¹⁴, Emília Sato¹⁵, Milena Mimica Davet¹⁶, Gustavo Aroca Martínez¹⁷, Fabio Bonilla-Abadía¹⁸, Gerardo Quintana López¹⁹, Reyna E. Sánchez Briones²⁰, Mario Pérez Cristóbal²¹, Luis H. Silveira Torre²², Ignacio García De La Torre²³, Ivan Morales Avendaño²⁴, Pablo Gamez-Siller²⁵, Astrid Paats²⁶, Jorge N. Cieza Calderón²⁷, Andy Armando Mendoza Maldonado²⁸, Martin Rebella²⁹, Gonzalo Silveira³⁰, John Fredy Jaramillo³¹, Monica Sanchez³², Urbano Sbarigia³³, Ashley Orillion³⁴, Federico Zazzetti³⁵, Graciela Alarcon³⁶ and Bernardo Pons-Estel³⁷, and Grupo Latino Americano de Estudio del Lupus (GLADEL), ¹Centro Regional de Enfermedades Autoinmunes y Reumáticas (GO-CREAR), Rosario, Argentina, ²Centro Regional de Enfermedades Autoinmunes y Reumáticas (GO-CREAR), Rosario, Argentina, ROSARIO, Santa Fe, Argentina, ³Sección Reumatología, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ⁴Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Doctor Negrín, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas GC, Spain, ⁵Galicia Health Service (SERGAS), Vigo, Spain, ⁶Servicio de Reumatología del HIGA San Martín, La Planta, Argentina, ⁷Unidad de Enfermedades Autoinmunes, Hospital Escuela Eva Perón, Granadero Baigorria, Argentina, Granadero Baigorria, Argentina, ⁸Servicio de Reumatologia - Hospital Angel C. Padilla, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina, ⁹Hospital General de Agudos Dr Ramos Mejia, CABA, Argentina, ¹⁰CEMIC, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ¹¹Hospital das Clínicas, Universidade Federal de Goias, Goias, Brazil, Goiânia, Brazil, ¹²Universidad Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil, ¹³Hospital Universitario Pedro Ernesto, UERJ, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ¹⁴Rheumatology Division, Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, ¹⁵Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, ¹⁶Facultad de Medicina y Ciencia, Universidad, San Sebastián, Chile, ¹⁷Universidad Simón Bolivar, Barranquilla, Colombia, Barranquilla, Colombia, ¹⁸Fundación Valle del Lili, Unidad de Reumatología, Cali, Colombia, ¹⁹Universidad de Los Andes, Hospital Universitario Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia, ²⁰División de Investigación en Salud, Hospital de Especialidades Dr. Antonio Fraga Mouret, CMN La Raza, IMSS, CDMX, Mexico, ²¹Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, CDMX, Mexico, IMMS, Mexico, ²²Department of Rheumatology , Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chávez., Mexico City, Mexico, ²³Depto. de Inmunología y Reumatología; Centro de Estudios de Investigación Básica y Clínica, Guadalajara, Mexico, ²⁴Hospital Central Dr. Ignacio Morones Prieto, Potosi, Mexico, ²⁵Servicio de Reumatologia del Hospital Universitario, "Dr. Jose Eleuterio Gonzalez", Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico, ²⁶Hospital de Clínicas I, Asunción, Paraguay, ²⁷Hospital Nacional Edgardo Rebagliatti Martins, Lima, Perú, Lima, Peru, ²⁸Hospital Cayetano Heredia. Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru, ²⁹Unidad Enfermedades Autoinmunes Sistemicas, Clinica Medica C-Hospital de Clinicas, UDELAR Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay, ³⁰Grupo de Investigación de EAIS y Reumatológicas, Montevideo, Uruguay, ³¹Centro de Referencia en Osteoporosis & Reumatología, Bogotá, Colombia, ³²Unidad Nefrologia,Hospital fernandez, CABA, Argentina, ³³Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, Brussels, Belgium, ³⁴Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, Spring House, PA, PA, ³⁵Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, Horsham, PA, PA, ³⁶The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Oakland, CA, ³⁷Centro Regional de Enfermedades Autoinmunes y Reumáticas (GO-CREAR), Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
Background/Purpose: Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are at increased risk of serious infections, which in turn, are associated with morbidity and mortality. The Systemic…
Abstract Number: 2325 • ACR Convergence 2024
Predictors of Treatment Response and Continuation in Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis Initiating Secukinumab – Results from the EuroSpA Collaboration
Stylianos Georgiadis¹, Mikkel Ostergaard², Jette Heberg³, Zohra Faizy Ahmadzay⁴, Brigitte Michelsen⁵, Simon Horskjær Rasmussen⁶, Mehrdad Kazemi⁶, Johan Karlsson Wallman⁷, Tor Olofsson⁸, Bente Glintborg⁹, Anne Gitte Loft¹⁰, Isabel Castrejón¹¹, Ladislav Šenolt¹², Michael J. Nissen¹³, Burkhard Moeller¹⁴, Jorge Garcia¹⁵, Filipe Barcelos¹⁶, Ziga Rotar¹⁷, Katja Perdan-Pikmajer¹⁷, Catalin Codreanu¹⁸, Corina Mogosan¹⁸, Karin Laas¹⁹, Sigrid Vorobjov²⁰, Bjorn Gudbjornsson²¹, Gerdur Gröndal²¹, Dan Nordstrom²², Anna-Mari Hokkanen²³, Pawel Mielnik²⁴, Tore K. Kvien²⁵, Gökçe Kenar²⁶, Marleen Van De Sande²⁷, Merete Hetland²⁸ and Lykke Oernbjerg¹, ¹Rigshospitalet Glostrup, Glostrup, Hovedstaden, Denmark, ²Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen and Center for Rheumatology, Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, Glostrup, Denmark, ³Rigshospitalet Glostrup, København V, Denmark, ⁴Rigshospitalet Glostrup and Copenhagen University, Glostrup, Denmark, ⁵Rigshospitalet Glostrup, Diakonhjemmet Hospital and Sørlandet Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark, ⁶Rigshospitalet Glostrup, Glostrup, Denmark, ⁷Lund University, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Section of Rheumatology and Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden, Lund, Skane Lan, Sweden, ⁸Lund University, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Section of Rheumatology and Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden, Lund, Sweden, ⁹DANBIO, Rigshospitalet Glostrup and University of Copenhagen, Virum, Denmark, ¹⁰Aarhus University Hospital and Aarhus University, Horsens, Denmark, ¹¹Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón and Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, ¹²Institute of Rheumatology and Department of Rheumatology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, ¹³Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland, ¹⁴Inselspital - University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland, ¹⁵Clínica Médico Ourém, Ourém, Portugal, ¹⁶Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Instituto Português de Reumatologia and Hospital CUF Descobertas, Lisbon, Portugal, ¹⁷University Medical Centre Ljubljana and University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, ¹⁸University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania, ¹⁹East-Tallinn Central Hospital, Tallinn, Estonia, ²⁰National Institute for Health Development, Tallinn, Estonia, ²¹Landspitali University Hospital and University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, ²²Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, ²³Helsinki University and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, ²⁴Helse Førde, Førde, Norway, ²⁵Center for treatment of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases (REMEDY), Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway and University of Oslo (UiO), Institute of Clinical Medicine, Oslo, Norway, Oslo, Norway, ²⁶Dokuz Eylul University School of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey, ²⁷Amsterdam Institute for Infection & Immunity and Reade and Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ²⁸Rigshospitalet Glostrup and University of Copenhagen, Glostrup, Denmark
Background/Purpose: Several predictors of treatment response to tumour necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi) in routine care have been reported in psoriatic arthritis (PsA). However, data on…
Abstract Number: 0033 • ACR Convergence 2024
Refined Autoantibody Profiles in RA Reveal That Primarily ACPAs Binding Non-glycine Citrulline Motifs Are Associated with Shared Epitope Alleles
Linda Mathsson-Alm¹, Helga Westerlind², Isabel Gehring³, Monika Hansson², Nasim Ghasemzadeh¹, Jessica Rojas-Restrepo³, Saedis Saevarsdottir⁴, Joseph Sexton⁵, Siri Lillegraven⁶, Espen Haavardsholm⁶, Merete Hetland⁷, Hilde Hammer⁸, Tore K. Kvien⁹, Bente Glintborg¹⁰, Leonid Padyukov², Johan Askling² and Caroline Grönwall², and the Danish Rheumatologic Biobank Study Group (the Biomarker Protocol), Swedish Rheumatology Quality Register Biobank Study Group (SRQb), ¹Thermo Fisher Scientific, Uppsala, Sweden, ²Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ³Thermo Fisher Scientific, Freiburg, Germany, ⁴University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, ⁵Center for treatment of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases (REMEDY), Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway, Oslo, Norway, ⁶Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ⁷Rigshospitalet Glostrup and University of Copenhagen, Glostrup, Denmark, ⁸Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Oslo, Norway, ⁹Center for treatment of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases (REMEDY), Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway and University of Oslo (UiO), Institute of Clinical Medicine, Oslo, Norway, Oslo, Norway, ¹⁰DANBIO, Rigshospitalet Glostrup and University of Copenhagen, Virum, Denmark
Background/Purpose: Carriage of HLA-DRB1 shared epitope (SE) alleles and a history of smoking, have been identified as the most prominent risk factors for development of…
Abstract Number: 0524 • ACR Convergence 2024
Evaluating Dose Reduction of Biologic Treatments in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Predicting Flares Using Clinical and Molecular Biomarkers
Laura Galindo Domínguez¹, Belen Acasuso², Vanesa Balboa-Barreiro³, Juan Fernández-Tajes², Juan Cañete⁴, Benjamin Fernández-Gutiérrez⁵, Isidoro González-Álvaro⁶, José L Pablos⁷, Carmen Bejerano-Herreria⁸, Maite Silva-Díaz⁹, Franciso javier De-Toro-Santos², Natividad Oreiro¹⁰ and francisco J Blanco¹¹, ¹Instituto de Investigacion Biomedica de A Coruña (INIBIC), A Coruña, Spain, ²Unidad de Investigacion Clinica. Grupo de Investigación de Reumatología (GIR). Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC), Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña (CHUAC), Sergas., Investigation, A Coruña, Spain, A Coruña, Spain, ³Unidad de Epidemiología Clínica y Bioeostadística. Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC). Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña (CHUAC), Sergas. Universidade da Coruña (UDC)., A Coruña, Spain, ⁴Hospital Clinic an IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain, ⁵3Rheumatology Department, and Health Research Institute (IdISSC), Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Calle del Profesor Martín Lagos, s/n, 28040, Madrid, Spain., Rheumatology, Madrir, Spain, Madrid, Madrid, Spain, ⁶University Hospital La Princesa, Madrid, Madrid, Spain, ⁷Health ministry, Madrid, Madrid, Spain, ⁸Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ⁹Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain, ¹⁰CHUAC, La Coruna, Galicia, Spain, ¹¹INIBIC-University of A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain
Background/Purpose: Reducing the dosage of biologic drugs in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who have achieved remission is a viable and necessary strategy. To identify…
Abstract Number: 0994 • ACR Convergence 2024
Association Between Cardiovascular Risk Factors and the Onset of Giant Cell Arteritis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
François Barde¹, Lucas Pacoureau², Alexis Elbaz², Raphaele Seror³ and Yann Nguyen⁴, ¹Inserm, CESP, Paris, France, ²Inserm, CESP, Villejuif, France, ³Service de Rhumatologie, Hôpital Bicêtre, AP-HP, le Kremlin Bicetre, Ile-de-France, France, ⁴Université Paris Saclay, Clichy, Ile-de-France, France
Background/Purpose: Giant cell arteritis (GCA) predominantly affects people over 50 years of age, with a female predominance. Its pathophysiological mechanism is currently under debate. In…
Abstract Number: 1519 • ACR Convergence 2024
Incidence, Risk Factors, and Outcomes of Severe Lymphopenia in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Chunhui Chen¹, Emily Wu², Huong Do³ and Kyriakos Kirou³, ¹New York Presbyterian Queens, Flushing, NY, ²Hospital for Special Surgery, Rochester, NY, ³Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Lymphopenia is common in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), occurring in 75-90% of cases over the disease course. It can result from SLE…
Abstract Number: 2369 • ACR Convergence 2024
Impact of Baseline Factors on Disease Progression and Apremilast Efficacy in Early Oligoarticular Psoriatic Arthritis
Philip Mease¹, Laura Coates², Alexis Ogdie³, Dafna Gladman⁴, Alen Zabotti⁵, Xenofon Baraliakos⁶, Cynthia Deignan⁷, Shauna Jardon⁷, Rebecca Wang⁷, Lichen Teng⁷ and Laure Gossec⁸, ¹Swedish Medical Center/Providence St. Joseph Health; University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, ²University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom, ³Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴University of Toronto, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria del Friuli Centrale, Udine, Udine, Italy, ⁶Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet Herne, Ruhr-University Bochum, Herne, Germany, ⁷Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, ⁸Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: In the FOREMOST study of early oligoarticular psoriatic arthritis (PsA), fewer patients (pts) receiving apremilast (APR) progressed from ≤4 active joints (all joints; oligoarthritis)…
Abstract Number: 0049 • ACR Convergence 2024
Inflammatory Priming by Anti-MAA Antibodies in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Marcelo Afonso¹, Jitong Sun¹, Koji Sakuraba¹, Alexandra Circiumaru², Denis Lagutkin¹, Masa Filipovic¹, Anca Catrina¹, Caroline Grönwall¹, Aase Hensvold¹ and Bence Réthi¹, ¹Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ²Division for Rheumatology, Karolinska Institutet; Center for Rheumatology, Academic Specialist Center, Stockholm region, Stockholm, Sweden
Background/Purpose: We have previously shown that autoantibodies targeting malondialdehyde-acetaldehyde protein adducts (anti-MAA) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients boosted osteoclast differentiation and induced bone erosion in mice…
Abstract Number: 0627 • ACR Convergence 2024
Clinical Conditions Associated with Presence of a High-titer Antinuclear Antibody in Individuals Without Autoimmune Disease
Matthew Chung¹, John Shelley², John Still², Gul Karakoc³, Xiaodi Ruan⁴, Jonathan D. Mosley⁴, C. Michael Stein⁴ and Vivian K. Kawai⁴, ¹VU, Nashville, TN, ²VUMC, Nashville, TN, ³Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Mt. Pleasant, SC, ⁴Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
Background/Purpose: Antinuclear antibodies (ANAs) are a diverse group of autoantibodies that are commonly present in SLE and other autoimmune (AI) disorders. However, a positive ANA…
Abstract Number: 1001 • ACR Convergence 2024
Perceived Mistreatment in Patients with Rheumatic Diseases: The Impact of the Underlying Diagnosis
Virginia Pascual Ramos¹, Guillermo Guaracha Basañez², Irazú Contreras-Yáñez³, Loraine Ledón-LLanes⁴, Ana Ortiz-Haro⁴ and Guillermo A Guaracha-Basañez⁴, ¹Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran, Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico, ²Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición "Salvador Zubirón", Mexico City, Mexico, ³Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición "Salvador Zubirán", Mexico city, Mexico, ⁴Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion “Salvador Zubirán”, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Background/Purpose: Mistreatment is a complex problem that impacts people's quality of life, morbidity, and mortality. In aged people, it has been associated with female sex,…
Abstract Number: 1527 • ACR Convergence 2024
Comparative Harms in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Treated with Anifrolumab or Belimumab: A Multicenter Cohort Study Using the TriNetX Research Network
Hsin-Hua Chen, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan (Republic of China)

Background/Purpose: Belimumab and anifrolumab, biologic therapies, have shown to improve systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) outcomes in clinical trials, but there is a lack of real-world…
Abstract Number: 2414 • ACR Convergence 2024
A Retrospective Comparative Analysis of Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease and Statin Use as Secondary Prevention in a Cohort of Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus versus Without Rheumatological Disease from a Single-Center Patient Registry
Alma Aveytia Camacho¹, Rakesh Gullapelli², Vineetha Philip³, Soudabeh Daliri¹, Ruba Memon⁴, Helene DiGregorio², Lily Romero Karam², Kanika Monga³, Eleonora Avenatti², Khurram Nasir² and Myriam Guevara¹, ¹Houston Methodist, Houston, TX, ²Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, ³Houston Methodist Hospital, Sugar Land, TX, ⁴Houston Methodist, Missouri City, TX
Background/Purpose: Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have increased prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors (RFs), which predispose to higher risk of premature atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease…
Abstract Number: 0056 • ACR Convergence 2024
Association of Soluble Immune Checkpoint Proteins with the Risk of Developing RA in ACPA-positive At-risk Individuals
Ryo Motoyama¹, Shohei Nakamura¹, Eisuke Inoue², Hideto Takada³, Masayoshi Harigai⁴ and Yuko okamoto¹, ¹Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan, ²Showa University, Tokyo, Japan, ³Tokyo Women's Medical University, Denver, CO, ⁴International University of Health and Welfare, Tokyo, Japan
Background/Purpose: ACPA+ individuals without inflammatory arthritis are considered as being in an at-risk state of RA, although further factors are needed to identify individuals with…
Abstract Number: 0660 • ACR Convergence 2024
Hydroxychloroquine Users at Lower Risk of Kidney Function Decline in Lupus Nephritis
Shivani Garg¹, Brad Rovin², Brad Astor¹, Tripti Singh¹, Lexie Kolton¹, Callie Saric¹, S. Sam Lim³ and Christie Bartels⁴, ¹University of Wisconsin, School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Madison, WI, ²The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, ³Emory University, Atlanta, GA, ⁴University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
Background/Purpose: Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is the cornerstone in treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), yet its role in preventing kidney function decline in lupus nephritis (LN)…
Abstract Number: 1003 • ACR Convergence 2024
Association Between Metabolic Markers and Knee Osteoarthritis: A Cross-sectional Study Using the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2009 to 2013
Junyong Park, Minkook Son, Sang Yeob Lee, Won Tae Chung and Sung Won Lee, Dong-A University College of Medicine, Busan, Republic of Korea
Background/Purpose: Low-grade, prolonged inflammation of involved joint is characteristic of osteoarthritis (OA) pathogenesis. Thus susceptibility to inflammation has been considered as a risk factor for…

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