Table 1.
Characteristics of 243 survey respondents
Characteristics | Results |
---|---|
Age, mean (SD), y | 56.0 (14.5) |
Gender, % | |
Man | 18.1 |
Woman | 81.5 |
Transgender | 0.4 |
Race, % | |
White | 66.7 |
Black | 10.3 |
Asian | 15.6 |
Other or choose not to answer | 9.5 |
Latinx a | 12.5 |
Primary language, % | |
English | 91.8 |
Spanish | 6.6 |
Other | 1.7 |
Living situation, b % | |
Alone | 17.7 |
Roommates | 2.9 |
Partner/spouse | 64.6 |
Children | 34.6 |
Other family | 13.6 |
Assisted living or skilled nursing facility | 0.4 |
Total annual household income, a % | |
<$50 000 | 14.2 |
$50 000 to $100 000 | 24.3 |
$100 000 to >$200 000 | 57.7 |
Choose not to answer | 17.2 |
Highest level of education, a % | |
High school graduate or less | 7.4 |
Some college | 16.5 |
College graduate | 34.3 |
Postcollege degree | 41.7 |
Systemic rheumatic disease, % | |
Rheumatoid arthritis | 49.8 |
Systemic lupus erythematosus | 27.6 |
Psoriatic arthritis | 13.2 |
Other c | 9.5 |
Rheumatic disease treatment, b % | |
None | 12.4 |
Conventional synthetic DMARD | 60.1 |
TNF inhibitor | 18.5 |
Other biologic | 14.0 |
JAK inhibitor | 9.9 |
Glucocorticoid | 16.5 |
Self‐reported comorbidities, % | |
Cancer | 11.9 |
Lung disease | 20.2 |
Chronic kidney disease | 9.9 |
Coronary artery disease | 4.1 |
Diabetes | 9.5 |
Heart failure | 2.9 |
Hypertension | 34.6 |
Obesity | 15.2 |
Stroke | 5.8 |
Current smoker, % | 2.5 |
Has a primary care doctor, a % | 97.5 |
Always wears sunscreen, a % | 51.3 |
Always wears a seatbelt, % | 98.4 |
DMARD, disease‐modifying antirheumatic drug; JAK, Janus kinase; TNF, tumor necrosis factor.
Data were missing for Latinx (n = 3), income (n = 4), education (n = 1), primary care doctor (n = 1), and sunscreen (n = 5).
Categories are not mutually exclusive.
Inflammatory myositis (n = 7), scleroderma (n = 7), ankylosing spondylitis (n = 4), giant cell arteritis (n = 4), or polymyalgia rheumatica (n = 1).