Epidemiology of the Rheumatic Diseases

by Silman, Alan J.; Hochberg, Marc C.; Cooper, Cyrus; Croft, Peter; Raspe, Heiner; Rigby, Alan

• ISBN13: 9780192623560
• ISBN10: 0192623567
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-01-06
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This major reference work is the first comprehensive text to review indetail the data currently available on the epidemiology of the main rheumaticand muscoskeletal diseases. The problems of disease definition and criteria areconsidered with data on the occurrence of these diseases, both prevalence andincidence, and their variation with age, sex, geographical area, ethnic group,and trends over time. The results of epidemiological investigations,looking atboth genetic and environmental risk factors, are considered and the impact ofspecific diseases of survival is also considered. Covering 15 disease areas frominflammatory joint disease and connective tissue disease to degenerative jointdisease and non articular conditions, such as low back pain and carpel tunnelsyndrome, this is the only text available which offers full coverage of thesubject with a truly international perspective.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Inflammatory joint disease

Rheumatoid arthritis

Juvenile arthritis

Psoriatic arthropathy

Ankylosing spondylitis

Reiter's syndrome and reactive arthritis

Connective tissue diseases

Systemic lupus erythematosus

Scleroderma

Polymyositis/dermatomyositis

Polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis

Noninflammatory and miscellaneous musculoskeletal diseases

Osteoarthritis

Gout

Chondrocalcinosis

Back pain

Soft tissue rheumatism

Osteoporosis

Pharmaco-epidemiology as applied to the rheumatic diseases

Pharmaco-epidemiology

Index

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