Comorbidities can pile up like a stack of blocks for people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). At the time when RA is diagnosed, they already have more comorbidities than their peers, and after RA diagnosis they accumulate comorbidities faster than their peers.
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Cynthia Crowson, PhD, is a Biostatistician at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. She has been conducting clinical research involving rheumatic diseases for over 30 years.
Dr. Crowson received Bachelor’s degrees in Mathematics and Statistics from Winona State University in 1989, a Master’s degree in Statistics from Iowa State University in 2005 and her Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the University of Oslo, Norway in 2018. She is currently a Professor of Biostatistics and Medicine. Dr. Crowson has contributed substantially to knowledge of the epidemiology of rheumatic diseases and to the investigation of cardiovascular disease risk among people with rheumatic diseases. Her current research interests involve rheumatoid arthritis and lupus and recent investigations focus on multimorbidity, health outcomes and rural health disparities.