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

Authors :: 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
Source :: Arthritis Care & Research.
Publication Year :: 2012
Publisher :: Wiley, 2012.
Abstract: 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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