ACR Meeting Abstracts
Abstract Number: 2900 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2013
Megan E. B. Clowse1, Jennifer M. Grossman2, Joan T. Merrill3, Anca Askanase4, Olga Dvorkina5, Michael D. Lockshin6 and Cynthia Aranow7, 1Rheumatology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, 2Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, 3Clinical Pharmacology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, 4Rheumatology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, 5Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, 6Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, 7The Feinstein Institute, Manhasset, NY
Background/Purpose: Clinical experience and some previous research suggest that patients with lupus who live in more socio-economically vulnerable conditions fair worse than other patients. We…