603 Remission and low disease activity are associated with lower health care costs in an international inception cohort of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus

• Joan T Merrill,
• Michelle Petri,
• David A Isenberg,
• Daniel J Wallace,
• Susan Manzi,
• Cynthia Aranow,
• Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman,
• Anca Askanase,
• Ian N Bruce,
• Guillermo Ruiz-Irastorza,
• Ellen M Ginzler,
• Manuel Francisco Ugarte-Gil,
• Bernardo A Pons-Estel,
• Graciela S Alarcón,
• John G Hanly,
• Murray B Urowitz,
• Juanita Romero-Diaz,
• Caroline Gordon,
• Sang-Cheol Bae,
• Anisur Rahman,
• Mary Anne Dooley,
• Paul R Fortin,
• Dafna D Gladman,
• Meggan Mackay,
• Andreas Jönsen,
• Murat Inanc,
• Diane L Kamen,
• Christine A Peschken,
• Søren Jacobsen,
• Jorge Sanchez-Guerrero,
• Ann E Clarke,
• Sasha Bernatsky,
• Kenneth C Kalunian,
• Yvan St Pierre,
• S Sam Lim,
• Megan RW Barber,
• Ronald FVan Vollenhoven

Affiliations

Joan T Merrill

4 Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA

Michelle Petri

Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

David A Isenberg

9 Centre for Rheumatology Research, Department of Medicine, University College, London, UK

Daniel J Wallace

Division of Rheumatology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA

Susan Manzi

Medicine, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Cynthia Aranow

Autoimmune and Musculoskeletal Disease, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, New York, USA

Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman

Rheumatology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Anca Askanase

2 Rheumatology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York, USA

Ian N Bruce

The Kellgren Centre for Rheumatology, NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre, Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, UK

Guillermo Ruiz-Irastorza

Autoimmune Diseases Research Unit, BioCruces Bizkaia Health Research Institute, Hospital Universitario Cruces, University of the Basque Country, Barakaldo, Spain

Ellen M Ginzler

14 Department of Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Manuel Francisco Ugarte-Gil

Grupo Peruano de Estudio de Enfermedades Autoinmunes Sistémicas, Universidad Cientifica del Sur, Lima, Peru

Bernardo A Pons-Estel

Rheumatology, Provincial Hospital of Rosario, Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina

Graciela S Alarcón

Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

John G Hanly

13 Medicine and Pathology, Queen Elizabeth ll Health Sciences Centre and Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Murray B Urowitz

Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Juanita Romero-Diaz

Immunology and Rheumatology, National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico

Caroline Gordon

Rheumatology Research Group, Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

Sang-Cheol Bae

Department of Rheumatology, Hanyang University Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Seoul, Korea (the Republic of)

Anisur Rahman

Medicine (Rheumatology), University College London, London, UK

Mary Anne Dooley

15 Thurston Arthritis Research Centre, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Paul R Fortin

11 Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, CHU de Québec, Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

Dafna D Gladman

1 Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Meggan Mackay

Institute of Molecular Medicine, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Manhasset, New York, USA

Andreas Jönsen

Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Murat Inanc

Internal Medicine Rheumatology, University of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Diane L Kamen

1 Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA

Christine A Peschken

27 University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Søren Jacobsen

Copenhagen Research Center for Autoimmune Connective Tissue Diseases (COPEACT), Department of Rheumatology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Jorge Sanchez-Guerrero

Immunology and Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion, Mexico City, Mexico

Ann E Clarke

Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Sasha Bernatsky

Divisions of Rheumatology and Clinical Epidemiology, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Québec, Canada

Kenneth C Kalunian

25 UCSD School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA, USA

Yvan St Pierre

2Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

S Sam Lim

Emory University, Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Atlanta, Georgia USA

Megan RW Barber

1Division of Rheumatology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary

Ronald FVan Vollenhoven

21University of Amsterdam, Rheumatology and Immunology Center, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NL