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    Background and Objectives Social and structural determinants of health (SDOH) have been associated with disability in neurologic diseases. However, the association between these factors and disability in Huntington disease (HD) has not been studied. This study aimed to evaluate the association of racial and sociodemographic factors with disease severity in patients with HD in North America. Methods We conducted a cross-sectional study of genetically confirmed participants with HD (36+ CAG repeats) in the North American region using the ENROLL-HD 2020 periodic dataset. In this analysis, our exposure variable was the participant’s race/ethnicity. The main outcome measure was disease severity, as measured by the Total Functional Capacity Score (TFC), which measures the level of disability of patients with HD. We used multivariate regression models to adjust for sociodemographic factors that may mediate or moderate a causal effect between race/ethnicity and disease severity. Results Among

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