Early rheumatoid arthritis in Latin America. Low socioeconomic status relates to high disease activity at baseline

Autor: José Francisco Díaz-Coto, Mario H. Cardiel, Zoila M Guibert-Toledano, Carlos Pineda, Licia Maria Henrique da Mota, Leticia Lino-Pérez, Eduardo Acevedo-Vásquez, Bernardo A. Pons-Estel, Claudio Galarza-Maldonado, Loreto Massardo, Luis Alberto Ramírez, Mónica P. Sacnun, Rubén Montufar, Oslando Padilla, Carlo V. Caballero-Uribe, Daniel E. Furst, María H Esteva-Spinetti, Jaime A Hernández, Enrique R. Soriano, Ieda Maria Magalhães Laurindo, Ángel F. Achurra-Castillo, Daniel Wojdyla
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: Arthritis Care & Research.
ISSN: 2151-464X
DOI: 10.1002/acr.21680
Popis: Objective To determine the influence of socioeconomic factors on disease activity in a Latin American (LA) early rheumatoid arthritis (RA) multinational inception cohort at baseline. Methods Clinical evaluation, ethnicity, socioeconomic status (SES), 4-variable Disease Activity Score in 28 joints using the erythrocyte sedimentation rate (DAS28-ESR), Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ) disability index (DI), and erosions were recorded in 1,093 patients with early RA (
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