Validation of Self-Reported Cardiovascular Disease and Associated Co- Morbidities in a Large Canadian Cohort of Early Inflammatory Arthritis

Lillian Barra^1*, Kyle Arsenault-Mehta¹, Janet E. Pope¹, Carol Hitchon², Gilles Boire³, Orit Schieir⁴, Carter Thorne⁵, Diane Tin⁵, Edward C. Keystone⁵, Boulos Haraoui⁶, Shahin Jamal⁷, Susan Bartlett⁸ and Vivian P. Bykerk⁹

¹Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Western University, Canada

²Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

³Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada

⁴Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

⁵Southlake Health Center, Newmarket, Canada

⁶Institut de Rhumatologie de Montréal and University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada

⁷Vancouver Coastal Health, Vancouver, Canada

⁸Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Canada

⁹Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, United States

^*Corresponding Author: Lillian Barra, Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Western University, Canada, Tel: 5197091133 Email: