Abstracts tagged "socioeconomic factors"

Abstract Number: 1099 • ACR Convergence 2022
Empowering Patients with Lupus Through Their Photographs: Application of the Photovoice Method to Understand Social Determinants of Health
Sciaska Ulysse¹, Kreager Taber², Jessica Williams³, Laura Lorenz⁴ and Candace Feldman¹, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Duke University, Durham, NC, ³Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, ⁴Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Background/Purpose: Photovoice is a participatory visual research method that provides individuals with cameras and empowers them to share aspects of their daily lives and environments…
Abstract Number: 0105 • ACR Convergence 2022
Supplemental Primary Dose of the COVID-19 Vaccine in Immunosuppressed Patients on DMARDs and Biologic Agents
Archanaa Murugan¹, Ximena Ruiz² and Leslie Harris Jr.¹, ¹University of Alabama at Birmingham- Internal Medicine- Montgomery, Montgomery, AL, ²University of Alabama at Birmingham- Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Montgomery, AL
Background/Purpose: Immunosuppressive states can attenuate the immunogenicity of the COVID-19 vaccines. Some studies have shown an improved immune response with a supplemental primary dose. In…
Abstract Number: 1115 • ACR Convergence 2022
Medication Co-pay Modifies Treatment Adherence in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Raisa Lomanto Silva¹, Gretchen M Swabe² and Jared W Magnani³, ¹University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, ²Division of Cardiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, ³Heart and Vascular Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; Division of Cardiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a multisystem autoimmune disease with significant morbidity and mortality. Adherence to SLE medications is challenging and estimated as 30-80%…
Abstract Number: 0109 • ACR Convergence 2022
The Impact of Marginalization on Health Outcomes in Childhood-onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Ibrahim Mohamed¹, Hardil Bhatt², Paris Moaf³, Lawrence Ng³, Dragana Ostojic-Aitkens³, Bryan Maguire³, Deborah Levy⁴, Linda Hiraki⁵, Alene Toulany⁶, Chelsea DeCoste⁷ and Andrea Knight⁸, ¹The Hospital for Sick Children, Neurosciences and Mental Health, Research Institute, ON, Canada 3Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Brampton, ON, Canada, ²Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children; Child Health Evaluative Services, SickKids Research Institute; Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵The Hospital for Sick Children, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Genetics and Genome Biology, SickKids Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁶The Hospital for Sick Children, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto,, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁷IWK Health Centre, Halifax, NS, Canada, ⁸The Hospital for Sick Children, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Adolescents with childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus (cSLE) face challenges in managing their disease and mental health. There is increasing evidence that community-level social and…
Abstract Number: 1505 • ACR Convergence 2022
Blue-collar Workers with Psoriatic Arthritis: Disease Activity, Work Disability and Response to Biologics
Nina Colla¹, Julia-Tatjana Maul², Burkhard Moeller³, Michael Nissen⁴, Nikhil Yawalkar⁵, Eleftherios Papagiannoulis⁶, Oliver Distler¹, Adrian Ciurea⁷ and Raphael Micheroli⁸, ¹Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland, ²Department of Dermatology and Venereology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland, ³Inselspital - University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland, ⁴Hopitaux Universitaires de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland, ⁵Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Inselspital Bern, Bern, Switzerland, ⁶Statistics Group, SCQM Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland., Zürich, ⁷University Hospital Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland, ⁸University Hospital Zurich, Department of Rheumatology, Zürich, Switzerland
Background/Purpose: Biomechanical stress is a possible trigger of inflammation in psoriatic arthritis (PsA). The influence of physically demanding occupations on this potential association has not…
Abstract Number: 0110 • ACR Convergence 2022
Does Access Reduce Excess Use? Lupus Outcomes in Two Distinct Socioeconomic Groups Seen by University Rheumatologists
Alissa Chandler¹, Rodney Tehrani¹ and Varun Bhalla², ¹Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL, ²Loyola University Medical cneter, Chicago, IL
Background/Purpose: SLE is a multi-organ chronic autoimmune disease, which requires chronic medication use and close follow up with a rheumatologist. Poor disease control can lead…
Abstract Number: 1764 • ACR Convergence 2022
Utilization of Electronic Health Record Data to Evaluate the Impact of Urban Environment on Risk of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Symptoms
Janet Song¹, Noah Forrest¹, Kathleen Mittendorf², Wei-Qi Wei², Leah Kottyan³, Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman¹, Theresa Walunas¹ and Abel Kho¹, ¹Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ²Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ³Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinatti, OH
Background/Purpose: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) has a complex and poorly understood etiology and is difficult to diagnose due to its varied presentation across many organ…
Abstract Number: 0112 • ACR Convergence 2022
What Drives Racial Disparities in Gout in the USA? – Population-Based, Sex-Specific, Casual Mediation Analysis
Natalie McCormick¹, Leo Lu², Chio Yokose³, amit johi⁴, Tony Merriman⁵, kenneth saag⁶, Yuqing Zhang⁷ and Hyon Choi⁸, ¹Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Arthritis Research Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ³Massachusetts General Hospital, Waltham, MA, ⁴Regeneron, Boston, MA, ⁵University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, ⁶University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁷Massachusetts General Hospital, Quincy, MA, ⁸MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL, Lexington, MA
Background/Purpose: Emerging US cohort data suggest gout and hyperuricemia impart larger burdens on adults self-reporting Black race, especially Black women, than those self-reporting White race.[1,2]…
Abstract Number: 1782 • ACR Convergence 2022
Sociocultural and Moral Factors Influencing the Decision to Vaccinate Among Rheumatic Patients: A Qualitative Study
Tirsa Colmenares-Roa¹, Amaranta ManriquedeLara², Virginia Pascual Ramos³, JOSE FRANCISCO MOCTEZUMA RIOS⁴, Irazu Contreras-Ibañez⁵, Everardo Alvarez-Hernandez⁶, Guillermo Guaracha Basañez⁷, Graciela Meza-LópezyOlguin⁴ and Ingris Pelaez-Ballestas¹, ¹Hospital General de México "Dr. Eduardo Liceaga", Ciudad de México, Mexico, ²Hospital General de México "Dr. Eduardo Liceaga,", Ciudad de México, Mexico, ³Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran, Ciudad de México, Mexico, ⁴HOSPITAL GENERAL DE MEXICO "Dr. Eduardo Liceaga", Ciudad de México, Mexico, ⁵Instituto Nacional de Nutricion Salvador Zubirán, Ciudad de México, Mexico, ⁶Hospital General de Mexico "Dr.Eduardo Liceaga", Ciudad de México, Mexico, ⁷Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición "Salvador Zubirn", Ciudad de México, Mexico
Background/Purpose: Vaccination is a process that involves individual, social and moral aspects, beyond public governance of vaccines or vaccination as a public health concern. The…
Abstract Number: 0114 • ACR Convergence 2022
Addressing Healthcare Disparities Through Implementation of a Medical Student-Based Patient Navigator Program
Grace Shadid¹, Zaid Nakadar¹, Miar Elaskandrany¹, Huchong Cai¹, Alejandra Moncayo¹, Ayten Sergios¹, Marcos Vargas¹, Jeremy Wilson¹, Naureen Kabani², Olga Dvorkina¹ and Ellen M. Ginzler², ¹SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, NY, ²SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Department of Medicine, Brooklyn, NY
Background/Purpose: African American, Afro-Caribbean, and Hispanic patients diagnosed with rheumatic diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) exhibit more severe disease manifestations compared to white…
Abstract Number: 2092 • ACR Convergence 2022
Greater Social Vulnerability Associates with Greater Glucocorticoid Use in Patients with SLE
Avira Som¹, Lily McMorrow¹, Ling Chen¹, Deepali Sen¹, Alia El-Qunni¹, Elizabeth Baker² and Alfred Kim¹, ¹Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, ²Saint Louis University College for Public Health and Social Justice, St. Louis, MO
Background/Purpose: Patients with SLE experience substantial health disparities. Studying the effect of spatial context on health outcomes has become a focus in health disparities research.…
Abstract Number: 0122 • ACR Convergence 2022
Documentation of Social Determinants of Health Among Individuals with Systemic Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases
Sciaska Ulysse, Mia Chandler, Leah Santacroce, Tianrun Cai, Katherine Liao and Candace Feldman, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Social determinants of health (SDoH), "the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age" (World Health Organization, 2022), directly influence health…
Abstract Number: 0344 • ACR Convergence 2022
Therapeutic Thresholds of Hydroxychloroquine Blood Levels: Physiologic and Social Determinants of Low Hydroxychloroquine Blood Levels
Shivani Garg¹, Betty Chewning², Brad Astor³ and Christie Bartels⁴, ¹University of Madison, School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, ²University of Wisconsin, School of Pharmacy, Madison, WI, ³University of Wisconsin, School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, ⁴University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
Background/Purpose: Lupus, the leading cause of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in young women, is treated with Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) which is primarily excreted by kidneys. Yet…
Abstract Number: 0376 • ACR Convergence 2022
The Socioeconomic Profile of Patients with Radiographic Axial Spondyloarthritis Is Associated with the Severity of the Disease and with the Permanent Disability. a Cluster Analysis in a National Spanish Registry
Clementina Lopez-Medina¹, Desiree Ruiz-Vilchez², Maria Angeles Puche Larrubia³, lourdes Ladehesa-Pineda⁴, Pilar Font⁵ and Eduardo Collantes⁵, ¹Reina Sofia University Hospital, Rheumatology Department, Jaén, Spain, ²Reina Sofia University Hospital, Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain, ³Reina Sofia University Hospital/Rheumatology Department/Maimonides Institute for Biomedical Research (IMIBIC), Granada, Spain, ⁴Reina Sofia University Hospital/Rheumatology Department/Maimonides Institute for Biomedical Research (IMIBIC), Cordoba, Spain, ⁵IMIBIC/University of Cordoba/Reina Sofia Hospital, Cordoba, Spain
Background/Purpose: Previous studies have demonstrated that male gender and higher level of education are independently associated with a lower hazard of sick leave in patients…
Abstract Number: 0382 • ACR Convergence 2022
Factors Associated with Diagnostic Delay in Axial Spondyloarthritis: Impact of Clinical Factors and Social Vulnerability
Gregory McDermott¹, Faith Selzer¹, Sizheng Zhao², Joerg Ermann³ and Jeffrey Katz¹, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²University of Manchester, Liverpool, United Kingdom, ³Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) experience significant delay between symptom onset and diagnosis. Determinants of delay are incompletely understood. We investigated the associations between…

All abstracts accepted to ACR Convergence are under media embargo once the ACR has notified presenters of their abstract’s acceptance. They may be presented at other meetings or published as manuscripts after this time but should not be discussed in non-scholarly venues or outlets. The following embargo policies are strictly enforced by the ACR.

Accepted abstracts are made available to the public online in advance of the meeting and are published in a special online supplement of our scientific journal, Arthritis & Rheumatology. Information contained in those abstracts may not be released until the abstracts appear online. In an exception to the media embargo, academic institutions, private organizations, and companies with products whose value may be influenced by information contained in an abstract may issue a press release to coincide with the availability of an ACR abstract on the ACR website. However, the ACR continues to require that information that goes beyond that contained in the abstract (e.g., discussion of the abstract done as part of editorial news coverage) is under media embargo until 10:00 AM ET on November 14, 2024. Journalists with access to embargoed information cannot release articles or editorial news coverage before this time. Editorial news coverage is considered original articles/videos developed by employed journalists to report facts, commentary, and subject matter expert quotes in a narrative form using a variety of sources (e.g., research, announcements, press releases, events, etc.).

Violation of this policy may result in the abstract being withdrawn from the meeting and other measures deemed appropriate. Authors are responsible for notifying colleagues, institutions, communications firms, and all other stakeholders related to the development or promotion of the abstract about this policy. If you have questions about the ACR abstract embargo policy, please contact ACR abstracts staff at [email protected].