Social Determinants of Health and Hidradenitis Suppurativa Disease Severity: A Geocoded Analysis

The relationship between social determinants of health and hidradenitis suppurativa disease severity has been minimally explored. In this geocoded, census tract-level analysis, we demonstrate that patients living in census tracts with high social vulnerability scores were more than twice as likely to have Hurley stage III disease than those in tracts with lower social vulnerability scores, after controlling for sex, race, body mass index, smoking status and age of symptom onset.