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ACR/ARHP Poster Session B
1173. Effect of Disease Activity on Lipoproteins Levels in Patients
with Early Arthritis. Silvia Pérez-Esteban, Ana M. Ortiz, Ana
M. Fernández-Ortiz, Santos Castañeda and Isidoro González-
Alvaro, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa. IIS Princesa,
Madrid, Spain
1174. Vascular Calcification On Hand and Wrist Radiographs
Are Associated with Comorbidity and Overall Mortality In
Rheumatoid Arthritis. Zachary Pruhs 1 , Kaleb D. Michaud 2 ,
Alan R. Erickson 3 , Harlan Sayles 4 , Gail S. Kerr 5 , Angelo L.
Gaffo 6 , Liron Caplan 7 , Grant W. Cannon 8 , Deana M. Lazaro 9 ,
Andreas M. Reimold 10 , Dannette S. Johnson 11 , Bogdan
Cherascu 12 , Pascale Schwab 13 , Nasim A. Khan 14 and Ted R.
Mikuls 15 , 1 University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha,
NE, 2 Univ of Nebraska Med Ctr & National Data Bank for
Rheumatic Diseases, Omaha, NE, 3 UNMC Physicians -
Brentwood, LaVista, NE, 4 University of Nebraska Medical
School, Omaha, NE, 5 Washington DC VA and Georgetown
University, Washington, DC, 6 Birmingham VA Medical Ctr,
Birmingham, AL, 7 Denver VA and University of Colorado,
Aurora, CO, 8 Salt Lake City VA and University of Utah, Salt
Lake City, UT, 9 Brooklyn VA, Brooklyn, NY, 10 Dallas VA and
University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX, 11 University
of Mississippi Med Center, Jackson, MS, 12 Iowa City VA and
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 13 Portland VA and Oregon
Health & Science University, Portland, OR, 14 University
of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Central Arkansas
Veterans Healthcare System, Little Rock, AR, 15 Omaha VA
and University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE
1175. Cardiovascular Risk Models and Carotid Intima-Media
Thickness Predict Cardiovascular Disease Events in
Rheumatoid Arthritis. Inge A.M. van den Oever 1 , Alper
M. van Sijl 1 , Hennie G. Raterman 2 , Maarten Boers 3 , Mike
J.L. Peters 2 , Yvo M. Smulders 2 , Alexandre E. Voskuyl 3 and
Michael T. Nurmohamed 4 , 1 Jan van Breemen Research
Institute | Reade, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2 VU University
medical center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 3 VU University
Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 4 Reade,
Centre for Rehabilitation and Rheumatology, Amsterdam,
Netherlands
1176. Insulin Resistance, a Non-Traditional Cardiovascular
Risk Factor Influenced Both by Disease Activity and
Adiposity in Rheumatoid Arthritis. Ronan H. Mullan 1 , Susan
Vankerkamp 1 , Owen Sullivan 1 , Oliver M. FitzGerald 2 , Ursula
Fearon 3 and Douglas J. Veale 3 , 1 St Vincent’s University
Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, 2 St. Vincent’s University Hospital,
Dublin, Ireland, 3 Translation Rheumatology Research Group,
Dublin, Ireland
1177. Prevalence and Correlates of Metabolic Syndrome in
Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis. Maria Haye Salinas 1 ,
Ana M. Bertoli 2 , Francisco Caeiro 3 , Luis Lema 4 , Veronica
Bellomio 5 , Santiago Aguero 6 , Federico Ceccato 7 , Carla
Saucedo 8 , Javier Rosa 8 , R. Quintana 9 , Marcela Schmid 10 ,
Walter Spindler 11 , Natalia Tamborenea 12 , Sergio Paira 7 ,
Bernardo Pons Estel 13 , Alberto J. Spindler 14 , Enrique R.
Soriano 8 , Alejandro J. Alvarellos 15 and Veronica Saurit 16 ,
1
Hospital Privado, Córdoba, Argentina, 2 Instituto
Reumatológico Strusberg, Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina,
3
Hospital Privado de Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina,
4
Instituto Modelo de Cardiologia, Cordoba, Argentina,
5
Consultorio, Tucuman, Argentina, 6 Centro de Rehabilitación
II, Catamarca, Argentina, 7 Hospital Jose Maria Cullen,
Santa Fe, Argentina, 8 Rheumatology Unit, Internal Medical
Services, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires,
Argentina, 9 Hospital Provincial, Rosario, Argentina, 10 Hospital
Cullen, Santa Fe, Argentina, 11 Centro Medico Privado,
Tucuman, Argentina, 12 Consultorio, Buenos Aires, Argentina,
13
Sanatorio Parque, Rosario, Argentina, 14 Universidad
Nacional Tucumán, Yerba Buena Tucuman, Argentina,
15
Hospital Privado, Cordoba, Argentina, 16 Hospital Privado
Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina
1178. Rate of Progression of Subclinical Atherosclerosis
in Femoral Versus Carotid Arteries in Patients with
Rheumatoid Arthritis Over 3 Years. E. Zampeli 1 , A.
Protogerou 1 , K. Stamatelopoulos 2 , K. Fragiadaki 1 , C. Katsiari 1 ,
K. Kyrkou 2 , C. Papamichael 2 , M. Mavrikakis 2 , G. D Kitas 3 and
P. P Sfikakis 1 , 1 First Department of Propaedeutic and Internal
Medicine, Laikon Hospital, Athens University Medical
School, Athens, Greece, 2 Vascular Laboratory, Department of
Clinical Therapeutics, Alexandra Hospital, Athens University
Medical School, Athens, Greece, 3 The Dudley Group of
Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Dudley, and Arthritis
Research UK Epidemiology Unit, University of Manchester,
Manchester, United Kingdom
1179. Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Are Not At Increased Risk
for 30-Day Cardiovascular Events or Infections Following
Total Joint Arthoplasty. Kaleb Michaud 1 , Edward Fehringer 2 ,
Kevin Garvin 2 , James R. O’Dell 3 and Ted R. Mikuls 3 , 1 National
Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases & University of Nebraska
Medical Center, Omaha, NE, 2 University of Nebraska Medical
Center, Omaha, NE, 3 Omaha VA and University of Nebraska
Medical Center, Omaha, NE
1180. High-Density Lipoprotein Subfractions HDL2 and HDL3 Are
Reduced in Female Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis and
Do Not Appear to Be Affected by Disease Activity. Elke.E.A.
Arts, Jaap Fransen, Heidi Lemmers, Leo A.B. Joosten,
Piet L.C.M. Van Riel and Calin Popa, Radboud University
Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands
1181. Association of Medicaons and Rheumatoid Arthritis
Susceptibility Polymorphism with Lipid Profiles in Patients
with Rheumatoid Arthritis. Lisa A. Davis 1 , Lauren M.
Pointer 2 , Roger K. Wolff 3 , Andreas M. Reimold 4 , Gail S.
Kerr 5 , Ted R. Mikuls 6 , Grant W. Cannon 7 and Liron Caplan 8 ,
1
Univ of Colorado School of Med, Aurora, CO, 2 Denver
Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Denver, CO, 3 University
of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 4 Dallas VA and University of
Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX, 5 Washington DC VA and
Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 6 Omaha VA and
University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE, 7 Salt Lake City VA
and University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 8 Denver VA and
University of Colorado, Aurora, CO
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