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ACR/ARHP Poster Session C
2105. Increased Activity of the platelet glycoprotein (GP) VI
pathway in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis. Paul A.
MacMullan 1 , Eimear Dunne 2 , Anne M. Madigan 1 , Michael C.
Berndt 2 , Robert K. Andrews 3 , Elizabeth E. Gardiner 3 , Dermot
Kenny 2 and G M. McCarthy 1 , 1 Mater Misericordiae University
Hospital, Dublin 7 , Ireland, 2 RCSI, Dublin 2 , Ireland, 3 Monash
University, Melbourne, Australia
2106. Comparison of Respiratory Function in Patients with
Inflammatory Polyarthritis and the General Population
in the United Kingdom. Suzanne MM Verstappen 1 , Mark
Lunt 1 , Robert N. Luben 2 , Jackie Chipping 3 , Nick Wareham 2 ,
Kay-Tee Khaw 2 , Ian N. Bruce 1 and Deborah PM Symmons 1 ,
1
Arthritis Research UK Epidemiology Unit, The University of
Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre,
Manchester, United Kingdom, 2 University of Cambridge
School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, United Kingdom,
3
Norfolk Arthritis Register, School of Medicine Health
Policy and Practice Faculty of Health UEA, Norwich, United
Kingdom
2107. C-Reactive Protein Associated with Depression in Patients
with Rheumatoid Arthritis. Mary E. Margaretten, Laura
J. Julian, Vladimir Chernitskiy, Jonathan D. Graf, Patricia P.
Katz, John B. Imboden and Edward H. Yelin, University of
California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
2108. Using Genome-wide single Nucleotide polymorphism
analysis to Investigate the Possibility of the CYB5R
Gene Promoting Interstitial Pneumonia in rheumatoid
arthritis patients. Takeshi Nakamura 1 , Satoru Koyano 2 ,
Keiko Funahashi 2 , Takafumi Hagiwara 1 , Takako Miura 1 ,
Kosuke Okuda 3 , Akira Sagawa 4 , Takeo Sakurai 5 , Hiroaki
Matsuno 6 , Tomomaro Izumihara 7 , Eisuke Shono 8 and
Tsukasa Matsubara 9 , 1 Matsubara mayflower hospital, Kato,
Japan, 2 Research Institute of Joint Diseases, Kobe, Japan,
3
Matsubara Mayflower Hospital, Kato, Japan, 4 Sagawa Akira
Rheumatology Clinic, Sapporo, Japan, 5 Inoue Hospital,
Takasaki, Japan, 6 Matsuno Clinic for Rheumatic Diseases,
Toyama, Japan, 7 Izumihara Rheumatic and Medical Clinic,
Kagoshima, Japan, 8 Shono Rheumatology Clinic, Fukuoka,
Japan, 9 Matsubara Mayflower Hospital, Kato-shi HYOGO-
KEN, Japan
2109. Contraception Use in Women with Rheumatoid Arthritis.
Megan E. B. Clowse 1 , Eliza F. Chakravarty 2 , Karen H.
Costenbader 3 , Christina Chambers 4 , Frederick Wolfe 5 and
Kaleb Michaud 6 , 1 Duke University Medical Center, Durham,
NC, 2 Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, 3 Brigham and
Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, 4 University of California,
San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 5 National Data Bank for Rheumatic
Diseases, Wichita, KS, 6 National Data Bank for Rheumatic
Diseases, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE
2110. Ethnic Minority Rheumatoid Arthritis Consortium: A
Clinical Registry of Minority Patients with Rheumatoid
Arthritis. Gail S. Kerr 1 , Yvonne R. S. Sherrer 2 , Raj G. Nair 3 ,
Edward L. Treadwell 4 , Angelia D. Mosley-Williams 5 , Asia M.
Mubashir 6 , Luis R. Espinoza 7 , Jeffrey Huang 6 , Christopher
Swearingen 8 and Yusuf Yazici 9 , 1 Washington DC VAMC and
Georgetown University and Howard University Hospital,
Washington, DC, 2 Centre Rheum Immunol Arthritis, Fort
Lauderdale, FL, 3 Washington Hospital Center, Washington,
DC, 4 E Carolina Univ Sch of Med, Greenville, NC, 5 John
Dingell VAMC, Detroit, MI, 6 Howard University Hospital,
Washington, DC, 7 LSU Medical Center, New Orleans, LA,
8
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR,
9
Division of Rheumatology, New York University School of
Medicine and NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases, New York, NY
2111. Impact of Health Literacy on Treatment Adherence and
Clinical Outcomes in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis.
Maria F. Marengo 1 , Michael A. Kallen 1 , Sofia De Achaval 2 ,
Vanessa Cox 1 , Araceli Garcia 3 , Marsha Richardson 4 and
Maria E. Suarez-Almazor 5 , 1 UT MD Anderson Cancer Center,
Houston, TX, 2 U.T. MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX,
3
UT MD Anderson, Houston, 4 UT MD Anderson, Houston, TX,
5
University of Texas. M.D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston,
TX
2112. Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is Associated with Increased
Mortality in Patients Undergoing Total Joint Arthroplasty.
Kaleb D. 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
2113. Sex Differences in Cytokine Response of Patients with
Rheumatoid Arthritis. Melissa A. Wells, John M. Davis
III, Keith L. Knutson, Michael A. Strausbauch, Cynthia S.
Crowson, Terry M. Therneau and Sherine E. Gabriel, Mayo
Clinic, Rochester, MN
2114. Anemia Is An Independent Indicator of Disease
Progression In Rheumatoid Arthritis. Burkhard Moller 1 ,
Doris Wisler 1 , Frauke Foerger 1 , Peter M. Villiger 1 and Axel
Finckh 2 , 1 Inselspital-University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland,
2
University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
2115. Assesment of Physical Activity by Accelerometry:
Relationship Between Physical Function and Disease
Activity in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients. Vanesa
Hernandez-Hernandez 1 , Esmeralda Delgado-Frías 1 ,
Ivan Ferraz-Amaro 1 , Jose A. Garcia-Dopico 2 , Lilian
Medina 2 , Inmaculada Alonso 1 , M.Teresa Arce-Franco 1 ,
M. Jesus Dominguez-Luis 3 and Federico Diaz-Gonzalez 1 ,
1
Rheumatology Service, La Laguna, Spain, 2 Central
Laboratory, La Laguna, Spain, 3 Hospital Universitario de
Canarias, La Laguna, Spain
2116. Gender Differences in Disease Characteristics in
Rheumatoid Arthritis, Inflammatory Bowel Disease and
Psoriasis: Evidence for a Greater Symptomatic Burden in
Females. N. Lesuis 1 , R. Befrits 2 , Filippa Nyberg 3 and R. F. van
Vollenhoven 2 , 1 Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands,
2
Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden,
3
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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