Prevalence of Rheumatoid Arthritis and Spondyloarthritis in Turkey: A Nationwide Study
Tiraje Tuncer
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E Gilgil
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C Kaçar
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Y Kurtaiş
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Ş Kutlay
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B Bütün
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P Yalçin
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Ü Akarirmak
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L Altan
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F Ardiç
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Ö Ardiçoğlu
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Z Altay
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F Cantürk
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L Cerrahoğlu
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R Çevik
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H Demir
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B Durmaz
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N Dursun
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T Duruöz
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C Erdoğan
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D Evcik
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S Gürsoy
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S Hizmetli
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E Kaptanoğlu
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Ö Kayhan
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M Kirnap
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S Kokino
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E Kozanoğlu
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B Kuran
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K Nas
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S Öncel
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D Sindel
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S Orkun
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T Sarpel
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S Savaş
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Öf Şendur
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K Şenel
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H Uğurlu
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K Uzunca
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İ Tekeoğlu
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F Guillemin
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Akdeniz University
2 Chercheur indépendant
3 Ankara University
4 Istanbul University
5 Uludağ Üniversitesi = Uludag University
6 Pamukkale University
7 AYBU - Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University
8 Inönü University
9 Medilife Health Group, Istanbul
10 Celal Bayar University School of Medicine
11 Dicle University
12 Erciyes University
13 Ege University - EGE (Izmir, Turkey)
14 Kocaeli University [Turkey]
15 Marmara University [Kadıköy - İstanbul]
16 Mersin University
17 Ufuk University
18 Gaziantep University
19 Cumhuriyet University [Sivas, Turkey]
20 Trakya University
21 Cukurova University
22 Şişli Etfal Hamidiye Education and Research Hospital
23 University of Sakarya
24 DEÜ - Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi = Dokuz Eylül University [Izmir]
25 Suleyman Demirel University
26 Adnan Menderes Üniversitesi
27 Ataturk University
28 Necmettin Erbakan University, Meram Medical Faculty
29 Kirklareli University
30 APEMAC - Maladies chroniques, santé perçue, et processus d'adaptation
2 Chercheur indépendant
3 Ankara University
4 Istanbul University
5 Uludağ Üniversitesi = Uludag University
6 Pamukkale University
7 AYBU - Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University
8 Inönü University
9 Medilife Health Group, Istanbul
10 Celal Bayar University School of Medicine
11 Dicle University
12 Erciyes University
13 Ege University - EGE (Izmir, Turkey)
14 Kocaeli University [Turkey]
15 Marmara University [Kadıköy - İstanbul]
16 Mersin University
17 Ufuk University
18 Gaziantep University
19 Cumhuriyet University [Sivas, Turkey]
20 Trakya University
21 Cukurova University
22 Şişli Etfal Hamidiye Education and Research Hospital
23 University of Sakarya
24 DEÜ - Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi = Dokuz Eylül University [Izmir]
25 Suleyman Demirel University
26 Adnan Menderes Üniversitesi
27 Ataturk University
28 Necmettin Erbakan University, Meram Medical Faculty
29 Kirklareli University
30 APEMAC - Maladies chroniques, santé perçue, et processus d'adaptation
F Guillemin
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- IdHAL : francis-guillemin
- ORCID : 0000-0002-9860-7024
Résumé
Objectives: This study aims to estimate the prevalence of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and spondyloarthritis (SpA) in Turkey using the same telephone questionnaire developed for screening RA and SpA in France and used in Serbia and Lithuania.
Material and methods: The study was performed in two steps. In step I, the French questionnaire was translated into Turkish and validated through a group of 200 patients (80 males, 120 females; mean age 44.0±13.1 years; range 19 to 75 years) followed up at the rheumatology departments of University Hospitals in Antalya and Ankara. In step II, the validated Turkish questionnaire was administered face-to-face to randomly selected 4,012 subjects (1,670 males, 2,342 females; mean age 41.5±16.8 years; range 16 to 97 years) by trained general practitioners across the country, in 25 prov- inces for case detection. The subjects who were suspected of having RA or SpA in accordance with the questionnaire were invited to the nearest university hospital for rheumatologic examination in order to confirm the diagnosis.
Results: In step II, a total of 25 subjects (2 males, 23 females) were diagnosed as RA. The standardized RA prevalence for the general population of Turkey was calculated as 0.56% (95% confidence interval [CI]; 0.33-0.79), 0.10% (95% CI; -0.05-0.25) for males and 0.89% (95% CI; 0.51-1.27) for females. A total of 18 subjects (3 males, 15 females) were diagnosed as SpA. The standardized SpA prevalence for the general population of Turkey was 0.46% (95% CI; 0.25-0.67), 0.17% (95% CI; -0.03-0.37) for males and 0.65% (95% CI; 0.32-0.98) for females. The prevalence of RA was highest in the Northern region (2.00%) and the prevalence of SpA was highest in the Central region (1.49%).
Conclusion: The prevalences of RA and SpA in Turkey are close to each other and there are significant inter-regional variations in prevalences of both RA and SpA.