Abstracts tagged "work and Social Participation"

Abstract Number: 1507 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Certolizumab Pegol Improves Work and Household Productivity and Social Participation over 1 Year of Treatment in Patients with Non-Radiographic Axial Spondyloarthritis
Atul Deodhar¹, Lianne Gensler ², Jonathan Kay ³, Walter P. Maksymowych ⁴, Nigil Haroon ⁵, Robert B.M. Landewé ⁶, Martin Rudwaleit ⁷, Stephen Hall ⁸, Lars Bauer ⁹, Bengt Hoepken ⁹, Natasha de Peyrecave ¹⁰, Thomas Kumke ¹¹ and Désirée van der Heijde ¹², ¹Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, ²University San Francisco California, San Francisco, CA, ³UMass Memorial Medical Center and University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, ⁴University of Alberta/CARE ARTHRITIS, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ⁵Toronto Western Hospital, Krembil Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁶Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ⁷Klinikum Bielefeld, Charité Berlin, Gent University, Bielefeld, Germany, ⁸Monash University and Emeritus Research, Melbourne, Australia, ⁹UCB Pharma, Monheim am Rhein, Germany, ¹⁰UCB Pharma, Slough, United Kingdom, ¹¹UCB Pharma, Monheim, Germany, ¹²Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Patients (pts) with non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis (nr-axSpA) report substantial impairment of productivity and daily activities due to the burden of their disease, similar to…