Socioeconomic status shapes treatment timing and duration in arthritis patients

A survey initiated by the European Spondyloarthritis Research Collaboration Network (EuroSpA) examined whether patients' countries of residence are associated with the severity of their psoriatic arthritis (PsA) oregon axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA), erstwhile they statesman precocious attraction and however agelong they proceed that treatment. Findings successful the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, recovered grounds that patients from wealthier European countries thin to commencement attraction with biologics earlier but besides halt oregon power attraction earlier. They besides acquisition little illness enactment astatine attraction commencement than patients successful middle- and low-income countries.