Income and Other Contributors to Poor Outcomes in U.S. Patients with Sarcoidosis.

ABSTRACT: Rationale: Socioeconomic factors are associated with worse disease severity at presentation in sarcoidosis, but the relative importance of socioeconomic variables on morbidity and disease burden has not been fully elucidated.Objectives: To determine the association between income and sarcoidosis outcomes after controlling for socioeconomic and disease-related factors.Methods: Using the Sarcoidosis Advanced Registry for Cures database, we analyzed data from 2,318 patients with sarcoidosis in the United States to determine the effect of income and other variables on outcomes. We divided comorbidities arising after diagnosis into those likely related to steroid use and those likely related to sarcoidosis. We assessed the development of health-related, functional, and soci

SUBMITTER: Harper LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7924656 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature