The Geospatial Distribution of Myositis and Its Phenotypes in the United States and Associations With Roadways: Findings From a National Myositis Patient Registry
Abstract:BackgroundLittle is known about the spatial distribution of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) in the United States (U.S.), or their geospatial associations.MethodsWe studied a national myositis patient registry, with cases diagnosed in the contiguous U.S. from 1985–2011 and comprised of dermatomyositis (DM, n = 484), polymyositis (PM, n = 358), and inclusion body myositis (IBM, n = 318) patients. To assess the association of myositis prevalence with distance from roads, we employed log-Gaussian Cox proc… Show more
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