Impact of education and social factors in rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases

June 12, 2025 Medical Xpress.com

Social determinants of health (SDH), such as socioeconomic status and educational background are factors that are increasingly recognized as critical contributors to health outcomes in chronic diseases. Understanding how certain factors impact different rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) is important, and new research into this for both systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and inflammatory arthritis was presented at the EULAR 2025 congress in Barcelona.

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