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GLORIA Study - Is Prednisone Harmful in Elder RA?

Jack Cush, MD

The GLORIA study (ABST# 1678) was a pragmatic, blinded placebo-controlled randomized trial from Dr. Martin Boers and colleagues where they assessed whether prednisolone (vs. placebo) use would alter clinical outcomes over 2 years.

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RheumNow Podcast - ACR 2021 Rehash (the good stuff..)

Jack Cush, MD

The ACR 2021 meeting has concluded. Dr. Jack Cush recounts a few more great abstracts from this past week’s virtual meeting.

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Telemedicine Enriched Care Model for Autoinflammatory Diseases

Bella Mehta, MBBS, MS

Traditionally telemedicine is thought to be a technology where a patient directly talks to a provider or a specialist; however, another concept of having a patient with a local primary care who in turn accesses specialists via video conferencing, is gaining some momentum.  

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ACR21 Best Abstracts We Saw - Day 3 (Monday)

Jack Cush, MD

The third day of ACR 2021 took a big leap in online content.  Here is a compilation (with links) of presentations were the “ACRBest” as seen by our RheumNow faculty. 

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Day 2 Report from ACR21

Jack Cush, MD

This report highlights the VITAL trial; the ORAL Surveillance Study; and the Microbiome study of monozygotic psoriasis patients.

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Bridging the gap in the delayed diagnosis of axSpA

Swetha Ann Alexander, MD

Delay in the diagnosis of axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) has been a huge challenge and is associated with poor outcomes.

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Career Advice for Young Rheumatologists: Drs. Janet Pope ( @Janetbirdope) asks Dr. Bykerk for her career advice for young rheumatologists, during the #ACR21 annual meeting. https://t.co/jv0eYeFR7M https://t.co/WfYFXPwMtI

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Dr. John Cush RheumNow ( View Tweet)
Either we need to review the Yearly PAP cervical screening in SLE women or work hard to improve patient awareness. Suspect the latter as time between tests was over 4 years late 😱 and 2.7% developed cancer #ACR21 #Abstr0133 @RheumNow https://t.co/wm01MfoFjf https://t.co/blD8WafZsE

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Md Yuzaiful Md Yusof Yuz6Yusof ( View Tweet)
#ACR21 Ab#1166. How many of your pts use marijuana? ⭐️Probably more than you think! ▶️57% have tried, >50% use at least weekly ▶️67% doctors thought <20% of pts use it 🔥Pts over 40 yo MORE likely to report marijuana use @Rheumnow https://t.co/0uW8rZvf1k https://t.co/ShMnR0faHr

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Eric Dein ericdeinmd ( View Tweet)
Billing and coding expert, Jean Acevedo shares the three URLs that you need to best understand the updated 2021 EM coding! #ACR21 @RheumNow #RheumNow https://t.co/3HbDuZP8gC
Dr. Rachel Tate uptoTate ( View Tweet)
If you need a #knee replacement move out of Ontario. More income disparity of access to #TKR in Ontario vs Pennsylvania. Lack of universal #healthcare in 🇨🇦. Oh Canada we fail. @RheumNow #ACR21 abst#1037 https://t.co/kobUlT3Ugr
Janet Pope Janetbirdope ( View Tweet)
"Managing comorbidities can really improve outcomes for our patients" @UnaMakris highlights the bio-psycho-social approach to multicomplexity and multimorbidity in our older patients with RA. #ACR21 @RheumNow https://t.co/TMLqoreogZ
Mrinalini Dey DrMiniDey ( View Tweet)
#ACR21 Gift of Gab https://t.co/R1e14UA0pQ Change habits through your words ⭐️Cost of inaction ⭐️Incremental change (ex ⬇️EtOH) ⭐️Follow the crowd! ⭐️Why not try? Good advice for persuading pts re behavior change, Rx adherence, smoking cessation, vax hesitancy, etc. @Rheumnow https://t.co/9Cd7hAafTr

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Eric Dein ericdeinmd ( View Tweet)
This is a reassuring introduction to Dr. Janet Zeide's lecture on the Gift of Gab! 😊 Might need to remind myself of this more regularly😉 @RheumNow #ACR21 @rheumarhyme #publicspeaking https://t.co/AoOmFkQUBk
sheila RHEUMarampa ( View Tweet)
Really love this slide from @UnaMakris on the "5Ms of #Ageing"- will be trying to apply this in the clinical setting. 📊#Multicomplexity 🧠#Mind 🚶#Mobility 💊#Medications 🎯#WhatMattersMost #ACR21 @RheumNow https://t.co/bCQN4VpyBP
Mrinalini Dey DrMiniDey ( View Tweet)
#ACR21 - Starting soon - The Gift of Gab! with @BayviewMedicine @jhrheumatology Jason Liebowitz moderating Communication for the Physician with @Wharton Janet Zeide. Learn about the RHEUM acronym for speaking! @Rheumnow https://t.co/wcgFUBcZeX
Eric Dein ericdeinmd ( View Tweet)
We need to be better at identifying and managing #depression in patients with #axspa. In a group of 70 pts, many had high HADs-D & PHQ-9, with worse disease activity & #QoL compared to those with normal scores. Abs#1305 #ACR21 @RheumNow https://t.co/lNoo0HfMcC https://t.co/n7Vyl9L5FR

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Mrinalini Dey DrMiniDey ( View Tweet)
My public policy is ⬆️vit D by going south for some of winter and take vitD supplement and eat a Mediterranean diet and/take omega3 tabs - also helps ERA in ⬆️dose. And exercise, be mindful and ⤵️stress & stop poverty! @RheumNow #ACR21 abst#0957 https://t.co/qulBm6DHlW

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Janet Pope Janetbirdope ( View Tweet)

beautifully chaired by @cappelliMD also elegant talk on 'M-triad' by the always articulate @lovetolearn27, made me think about my pt on the ward right now! #ACR21 @RheumNow @CCalabreseDO @LCalabreseDO @got_rheum @MarieKostine @lexmeara @ReidMDMPH @NilashaGhosh @RheumDr_Nina https://t.co/2iu6zWp8Ge
David Liew drdavidliew ( View Tweet)
My video take from yesterday for @RheumNow: 'Tired of Doing Nothing About Fatigue' #ACR21 https://t.co/EXjOibL5s9 https://t.co/cR6r8GdDor

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David Liew drdavidliew ( View Tweet)

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