Abstract Number: 0365 • ACR Convergence 2025
Clinical Characteristics and Psychosocial Outcomes of Patients with UCTD Compared to SLE
Background/Purpose: While UCTD is considered less clinically severe than SLE, our prior qualitative study reported that patients with UCTD experience significant psychosocial challenges (J Clin…Abstract Number: 2378 • ACR Convergence 2025
Factors Associated With Fatigue In Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Data From The Almenara Lupus Cohort
Background/Purpose: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic autoimmune disease characterized by a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations, fatigue being one of them; it is…Abstract Number: 2337 • ACR Convergence 2025
A Mediation Analysis of Tofacitinib’s Effects on SF-36: The Roles of Fatigue, Pain, Stiffness, and Mobility in Ankylosing Spondylitis
Background/Purpose: Mediation modeling is used to determine mechanisms underlying the relationship between independent and dependent variables via other explanatory variables (“mediators”). Fatigue, pain, and morning…Abstract Number: 1573 • ACR Convergence 2025
Health-related quality of life over 15 years in systemic sclerosis: impact of sex and survival
Background/Purpose: Patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) face an uncertain long‑term outlook; understanding how their health‑related quality of life (HRQoL) changes over time can help them…Abstract Number: 1342 • ACR Convergence 2025
The Impact of Age on Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis Compared to Population Controls: A Cross-Sectional Analysis
Background/Purpose: As the population ages, rheumatologists will increasingly care for older persons with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Aging comes with specific challenges of which rheumatologists are…Abstract Number: 1079 • ACR Convergence 2025
Sociodemographic, Clinical, and Community-Level Deprivation Factors are Associated with Health-Related Quality of Life in Systemic Sclerosis
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a multisystem autoimmune disease with heterogeneous manifestations and significant impairment in health-related quality of life (HRQoL). SSc outcomes are shaped…Abstract Number: 0123 • ACR Convergence 2024
The Impact of Sedentary Behavior and Physical Activity Level on Clinical Parameters and Quality of Life in Patients with Primary Antiphospholipid Syndrome (PAPS)
Background/Purpose: PAPS is an autoimmune disease marked by thrombosis, obstetric poor outcomes and antiphospholipid antibodies. Despite treatment, APS is associated with high morbidity and mortality,…Abstract Number: 0326 • ACR Convergence 2024
Validity and Responsiveness of Core Set Measures in Idiopathic Inflammatory Myositis Based on 36-item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36)
Background/Purpose: There are six core set measures (CSMs) of disease activity in patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM). However, there is limited data on their…Abstract Number: 0355 • ACR Convergence 2024
Improvements in Patient-Reported Outcomes After Treatment with SEL-212 in Adults with Refractory Gout: Results from Two Randomized Phase 3 Trials
Background/Purpose: Patients (pts) with gout have impaired health-related quality of life (HRQoL) relating to acute or chronic inflammation from elevated serum uric acid (sUA) levels.…Abstract Number: 0368 • ACR Convergence 2024
Development and Validation of a Patient-centered Self-evaluation Questionnaire in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: LUPIN®
Background/Purpose: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) features unpredictable disease activity fluctuations, making flare hard to detect and significantly impairing quality of life. This highlights the need…Abstract Number: 1160 • ACR Convergence 2024
Short Form-36 Psychometric Properties in Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies: Reliability, Validity and Responsiveness
Background/Purpose: The quality of life, as measured by the Short Form-36 (SF-36), is reduced in patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM). Although endorsed by the…Abstract Number: 1380 • ACR Convergence 2024
Rapid, Clinically Meaningful Pain Improvements Are Associated with Improvements in Other Patient-Reported Outcomes in RA Patients Treated with Upadacitinib
Background/Purpose: Pain is a crucial symptom for patients with RA; early and effective treatment can help alleviate it.1 In this post hoc analysis, we investigated…Abstract Number: 1353 • ACR Convergence 2023
Sexual Dysfunction in Women with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Cross-Sectional Multicentre Study
Background/Purpose: Due to its multisystemic involvement, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) can have a significant impact on patients' quality of life (QoL). Sexual (dis)function is a…Abstract Number: 1480 • ACR Convergence 2023
Demographic and Clinical Characteristics of Patients with LN: A Multicenter Study from the Gulf Region
Background/Purpose: Data from limited studies of LN in the Gulf region suggest that LN manifests more severely in this region than in Caucasian populations, yet…Abstract Number: 1832 • ACR Convergence 2023
Prevalence of Musculoskeletal Manifestations in Post-acute COVID 19 Patients and Their Quality of Life at Kenyatta National Hospital
Background/Purpose: Since its discovery in Wuhan, China, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS CoV 2) has ravaged the globe on an unprecedented scale. While…
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