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ACR/EULAR Develop New APS Classification Criteria
Doruk Erkan, MD, MPH, and Jason S. Knight, MD, PhD, explained the antiphospholipid syndrome classification criteria developed by the ACR and EULAR, including clinical features, risk stratification of macrovascular events, re-defined pregnancy morbidity definitions, and more.
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ARP Keynote: Lifestyle Medicine Benefits Patients
A healthy diet, physical activity, and stress resilience can often ameliorate disease-related symptoms such as pain, fatigue, and insomnia. In the ARP Keynote, Sarah Patterson, MD, gave an overview of research supporting lifestyle interventions for better patient outcomes and quality of life.
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Gluck Memorial Lecture Outlines the Quest for Optimal Fracture Risk Prediction and Bone Strength Measurements
No current technology can comprehensively measure bone quality, so clinicians must be attuned to the various tools available to gauge each component — bone density, accumulated microscopic damage, bone turnover, and the quality of collagen or mineral crystal size — individually. In his Monday lecture,…
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Experts Discuss Barriers, Drivers, and Solutions for Health Disparities in Rheumatology
Experts including Alvin F. Wells, MD, PhD, FACR, FACP, discussed health disparities, drivers of those disparities, and creative ways to overcome them to create better outcomes for patients with rheumatic disease.
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Physician-Owners to Offer a Checklist for Opening a Private Practice
Two rheumatologists who have been through the process, Tien-I Karleen Su, MD, and Crystal Withers, MD, PhD, will go through a checklist of the myriad aspects that must be taken into account to open a private practice and sustain the new business.