Abstract Number: 0450 • ACR Convergence 2022
Incidence of Solid and Hematologic Tumors in Patients with ANCA: A 10-year Retrospective Cohort Study
Background/Purpose: Serum antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) are significantly associated with the development of ANCA-associated vasculitides (AAV) but may also be detected in patients with other…Abstract Number: 0552 • ACR Convergence 2022
Identifying Subgroups of Patients Undergoing Knee Replacement
Background/Purpose: Knee replacement surgery (KR) is prevalent in the US with estimated lifetime risk from age 25 of 7% for males and 9.5% for females,…Abstract Number: 0643 • ACR Convergence 2022
Subsetting SLE Patients Based on DNA Methylation at the Time of Disease Flare
Background/Purpose: Current treatments for SLE do not adequately prevent disease progression. This lack of efficacy, in part, relates to the molecular heterogeneity of disease. The…Abstract Number: 0768 • ACR Convergence 2022
Reevaluating Clinical Outcomes of Patients on Combination Biologics
Background/Purpose: Biologic treatments such as monoclonal antibodies have become first line treatment for many autoimmune diseases and now monoclonal antibodies are being used to treated…Abstract Number: 0870 • ACR Convergence 2022
Knee Acoustic Emissions as a Noninvasive Biomarker of Articular Health in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
Background/Purpose: Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) refers to all forms of autoimmune arthritis in children with undetermined etiology, and thus it is the most prevalent chronic…Abstract Number: 1317 • ACR Convergence 2022
The Epidemiology of Old versus Young Males Referred for BMD Assessment
Background/Purpose: Data on osteoporosis in men are scarce. The World Health Organisation's (WHO) definition of a T-score less than 2.5 has only been described for…Abstract Number: 1606 • ACR Convergence 2022
An Expanded Anti-citrullinated Protein Antibody Profile Derived Using Unsupervised Machine Learning Predicts Treatment Responses to Biologic Therapies in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treatments have advanced with the availability of biologic therapies. Despite these advances, 30-40% of patients receiving a biologic do not adequately…Abstract Number: 1812 • ACR Convergence 2022
Impact of Misclassification on the US Prevalence of Gout: Bayesian Sensitivity Analysis of the National Health & Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)
Background/Purpose: Gout is considered the most common inflammatory arthritis in the US with an estimated prevalence of 3.9% based on the National Health and Nutrition…Abstract Number: 2100 • ACR Convergence 2022
Employment Trajectory of Canadian Young Adults with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Background/Purpose: Young adulthood (18-30 years) is a time of many changes. Young adults finish school, enter the labour force, and maybe start their own families.…Abstract Number: 2224 • ACR Convergence 2022
Genes Causative of Primary Immunodeficiency Are Risk Factors for and Over-expressed in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a polygenic autoimmune disease whose specific causes are incompletely understood and for which there exists no single comprehensive diagnostic…Abstract Number: 0543 • ACR Convergence 2021
Novel Insights into Systemic Sclerosis Using a Sensitive Computational Method to Analyze Whole-genome Bisulfite Sequencing Data
Background/Purpose: While the etiology of systemic sclerosis (SSc) remains largely unknown, epigenetic dysregulation including abnormal DNA methylation is thought to contribute to its onset and…Abstract Number: 0759 • ACR Convergence 2021
The Patient as Assessor of Disease Status: A Graphical Evaluation of Relations Between Patient-Reported Outcomes in Early Rheumatoid Arthritis
Background/Purpose: Current EULAR-guidelines recommend treating Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) early, intensively and to-target. Patient-Reported Outcomes (PROs) can be important contributors for remote monitoring of disease status…Abstract Number: 0850 • ACR Convergence 2021
Regression Methods for Modeling Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Arthritis Index (WOMAC) Pain Scores for Early Stage Knee Osteoarthritis
Background/Purpose: The Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Arthritis Index (WOMAC) pain score [range 0-20] is a common outcome measure for clinical trials and observational studies…Abstract Number: 0851 • ACR Convergence 2021
Application of a Modified Recursive Feature Elimination Machine Learning Algorithm to Select Predictors of Mortality in Those with and Without Osteoarthritis
Background/Purpose: Radiographic osteoarthritis (rOA) and joint symptoms at the knee and hip are predictors of mortality. However, questions remain about the nature of the relationship…Abstract Number: 1218 • ACR Convergence 2021
Unsupervised Clustering Identifies Unique Subsets of Patients in a Racially and Ethnically Diverse Rheumatoid Arthritis Cohort
Background/Purpose: Single biomarkers have limited utility to date in guiding clinical care in RA. There is growing interest in applying machine learning algorithms to combine…