Social determinants of health influence disease activity and functional disability in Polyarticular Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

• Main Authors: William Daniel Soulsby (Author), Nayimisha Balmuri (Author), Victoria Cooley (Author), Linda M. Gerber (Author), Erica Lawson (Author), Susan Goodman (Author), Karen Onel (Author), Bella Mehta (Author), for the CARRA Registry Investigators (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Social determinants of health (SDH) greatly influence outcomes during the first year of treatment in rheumatoid arthritis, a disease similar to polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis (pJIA). We investigated the correlation of community poverty level and other SDH with the pe...