Abstracts tagged "education and race/ethnicity"

Abstract Number: 1375 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
Educational Level and Not Ethnicity an Important Determinant of Disease Progression in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Sharon Dowell¹, Gail S. Kerr², Yusuf Yazici³, Christopher Swearingen⁴, Mercedes Quinones⁵, Luis R. Espinoza⁶, Edward L. Treadwell⁷, Theresa Lawrence-Ford⁸, Yvonne Sherrer⁹, Angelia Mosley-WIlliams¹⁰, Ignacio Garcia-Valladares¹¹, Rodolfo Perez Alamino¹², Chunqiao Luo¹³, Akgun Ince¹⁴, Adrian Godoy¹ and John Amatruda¹⁵, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Howard University, Washington, DC, ²Rheumatology, Washington DC VAMC, Georgetown and Howard University, Washington, DC, ³Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, ⁴Pediatrics and Biostatistics, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, Howard University Hospital, Washington, DC, ⁶Medicine-Section of Rheum, LSU Medical Center, New Orleans, LA, ⁷Dept Medicine Div of Rheum, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, ⁸North Georgia Rheumatology Group, PC, Lawrenceville, GA, ⁹Rheum/Immunology, Centre Rheum Immunol Arthritis, Fort Lauderdale, FL, ¹⁰Rheumatology, Detroit VAMC, Detroit, MI, ¹¹Immunology and Rheumatology, Hospital General de Occidente, Zapopan, Jal., Mexico, ¹²internal Medicine, LSUHSC, New Orleans, LA, ¹³University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, ¹⁴Arthitis Consultants Inc, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO, ¹⁵Rheumatology, Howard University, Washington, DC
Background/Purpose: Formal educational level is often used as a surrogate for socioeconomic status and in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), low levels have been associated…