November 13, 2020
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VIDEO: Quantifying the respiratory burden for patients with RA
In this video, Jeffrey A. Sparks, MD, MMSc, associate physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital, explained the findings from his study that investigated the relationship between rheumatoid arthritis and pulmonary function.
The data, presented at ACR 2020 by Lauren Prisco, from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, suggested restrictive and obstructive lung disease may be a pulmonary manifestation of RA.
“There’s probably a spectrum of lung disease within rheumatoid arthritis,” Sparks, who is also an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, said.
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Healio Interview Prisco L, et al. Abstract #0491. Presented at: ACR Convergence 2020; November 5-9, 2020 (virtual meeting).
Disclosures:
Sparks reports receiving research grants to his institution from Bristol-Meyers Squibb, NIH and Rheumatology Research Foundation; and consulting fees from Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Gilead, Inova Diagnostics, Janssen, Optum and Pfizer.