Abstracts tagged "Telomeres and hand disorders"

Abstract Number: 2945 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Incident Hand OA Is Strongly Associated with Reduced Peripheral Blood Leukocyte Telomere Length
Timothy E. McAlindon¹, Mary Roberts², Lena Franziska Schaefer³, Jeffrey B. Driban⁴, Jeffrey Duryea³, Francisco J Blanco⁵, Jose-Luis Fernandez-Garcia⁶ and Charles Eaton⁷, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, ²Center for Primary Care and Prevention, Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, Pawtucket, RI, ³Radiology, Brigham & Women's Hospital/ Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁴Rheumatology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, ⁵Servicio de Reumatología. Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC), Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña (CHUAC), Sergas. Universidade da Coruña (UDC). As Xubias, 15006. A Coruña. España, A Coruña, Spain, ⁶Genetic Department, INIBIC-Hospital Universitario A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain, ⁷Family Medicine and Epidemiology, Warren Alpert Medical School, School of Public Health, Brown University, Providence, RI
Background/Purpose: Hand OA (HOA) is a painful, destructive and deforming polyarticular disorder that impairs an individual’s ability to perform manipulative activities of daily life and…