SAT0134 Prevalence of Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Cardiovascular Disease in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients across International Regions: A Comparison of the Corrona International and Corrona US Registries

Background Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a major comorbidity in patients (pts) with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We explored variations in the prevalence of cardiovascular (CV) risk factors and CVD among RA pts in different international regions using data from CORRONA International (C.Intl) and CORRONA US (C.USA) RA registries. Methods The C.Intl registry is a multi-center, observational registry. Adult RA pts have been enrolled from 83 rheumatology practices in 10 countries in 3 regions - Latin America (Mexico, Brazil, Argentina), Eastern Europe (Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Russia, Ukraine), Asia (India). The C.USA registry enrolls pts from 111 rheumatology practices across the United States. Both registries collect data in a similar manner from rheumatologists and RA pts at regular clinical encounters. We compared cross-sectional baseline descriptive C.Intl data for demographic and disease characteristics with cross-sectional data from the most recent visit of C.USA-enrolled pts. Prevalence for CV risk factors and CVD are presented crude for C.USA and age/gender-standardized to the C.USA age/gender distribution (age categories