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378 A PILOT STUDY IN THE USE OF THE ROSE ANGINA QUESTIONNAIRE IN THE ASSESSMENT
OF ISCHAEMIC HEART DISEASE IN THE RHEUMATOID PATIENT.
N Kumar 1 , NJ Marshall 1 , D Neely 2 , SS Furniss 3 , PN Platt 1 , DJ Walker 1 . 1
Department of
Rheumatology, Musculoskeletal Unit, Freeman Hospital, High Heaton, Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
United Kingdom; 2 Department of Biochemistry, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
United Kingdom; 3 Department of Cardiology, Freeman Hospital, High Heaton,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
379 HEALTH SCREENING INTERVENTIONS ARE PARTIALLY SUCCESSFUL IN REDUCING
CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTORS IN PATIENTS WITH RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS.
AM Meadows, NJ Sheehan. Department of Rheumatology, Edith Cavell Hospital, Peterborough,
Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
380 PULMONARY ARTERY PRESSURES MEASURED WITH DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY IN
RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS PATIENTS OVER A FIVE YEAR PERIOD.
AR Clewes 1 , A Burkart 2 , LM Crolla 2 , MP Lynch 1 , JK Dawson 1 . 1
Department of Rheumatology,
St Helens and Knowsley NHS Trust, St Helens, Merseyside, United Kingdom; 2 Cardiorespiratory
Department, Whiston Hospital, Prescot, Merseyside, United Kingdom
381 A HIGH PREVALENCE OF LEFT VENTRICULAR SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION IN A
RHEUMATOID POPULATION.
GS Bhatia 1 , MD Sosin 1 , KA Grindulis 2 , FH Khattak 2 , GY Lip 1 , RC Davis 1 . 1
University Department of
Medicine & Department of Cardiology, University of Birmingham and Sandwell & West
Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, Birmingham, United Kingdom; 2 Department of Rheumatology,
Sandwell Hospital, Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, West Bromwich, West
Midlands, United Kingdom
382 THE EFFECTS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL AND POSTURAL STRESS ON CARDIOVASCULAR AND
INFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY IN PATIENTS WITH RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS.
JJCS Veldhuijzen van Zanten 1,3 , C Ring 1 , D Carroll 1 , GD Kitas 2,3 . 1
School of Sport and Exercise
Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; 2 School of Medicine, University
of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; 3 Department of Rheumatology, Dudley Group of
Hospitals NHS Trust, Dudley, United Kingdom
RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS: MANAGEMENT (383 – 386)
383 THE VALUE OF ANTI-CCP ASSAYS IN AN OUTPATIENT RHEUMATOLOGY CLINIC.
R Ramachandran 1 , A Farrell 2 , M Thomas 2 , R Madhok 1 , HA Capell 1 . 1
Centre for Rheumatic Diseases,
Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, United Kingdom; 2 Department of Clinical Immunology, Western
Infirmary, Glasgow, United Kingdom
384 PATIENT-INITIATED REVIEWS AND PHYSICIAN-INITIATED REVIEWS IN RA:
HOW APPROPRIATE ARE THEY?
M Hehir 1 , S Hewlett 1 , J Kirwan 1 , K Mitchell 1 , J Pollock 2 , D Memel 3 , PS Blair 4 . 1
Academic
Rheumatology, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom; 2 Dept Health and Social Care,
University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom; 3 Air Balloon Surgery, Bristol, United
Kingdom; 4 Div Child Health, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
385 AGGRESSIVE TREATMENT OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS FOR THE BUSY CLINICIAN.
TC Barnes, V Gupta, EJ Tunn, RC Bucknall, KW Nelson. Rheumatology, Royal Liverpool University
Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom
386 CHANGES IN DEMOGRAPHIC AND DISEASE PATTERNS AMONG PATIENTS WITH
RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS ENTERING LARGE CLINICAL TRIALS OVER A 20 YEAR PERIOD.
R Ramachandran, E Garrity, R Madhok, HA Capell. Centre for Rheumatic Diseases, Royal Infirmary,
Glasgow, United Kingdom
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