Arthritis Chronicle

This report is from the morbidity and mortality weekly report and is from the centre for disease control and prevention collaboration. 
Arthritis is costly (86 billion dollars annually), highly prevalent (affecting 43 million U.S. adults), the leading cause of disability, and associated with substantial disparities in pain, activity limitations, and compromised quality of life.

State-based estimates of arthritis prevalence and impact help define the burden of arthritis and provide state arthritis programs with data for program planning. This report summarizes results from the 2003 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey on state-specific prevalence of self-reported doctor-diagnosed arthritis and arthritis-attributable activity limitation in 50 states, the District of Columbia, and three territories.

The findings indicated that the prevalence of adults with self-reported doctor-diagnosed arthritis ranged from 17.9% to 37.2% (state median: 27.0%) and with arthritis-attributable activity limitation ranged from 6.3% to 16.7% (state median: 9.9%); the proportion of adults with arthritis-attributable activity limitation among those with self-reported doctor-diagnosed arthritis ranged from 30.1% to 49.8% (state median: 37.4%). These high rates of arthritis prevalence and activity limitation are projected to increase with the aging of the population, requiring increased intervention measures to reduce this impact.

This is from the May issue and canbe found on page 477 of volume5:55. the pubmed identifier is 16675943.

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There are over 200 different kinds of Arthritis that affect people of all ages and which act on many different parts of the body. Some of the more common kinds of the disease include Osteoarthritis, Rheumatoid arthritis and Pauciarticular arthritis.
 Arthritis is not thought to be caused by one single gene and therefore if a member of your family is affected by it there is little evidence to think that you will too. It is estimated that between 0.6% and 1.1% of the population will suffer from the phenomenon, this percentage is much lower for people of a Chinese background, and is as high as 6% in indigenous Indians. It is thought by some people that arthritis is linked to the weather; however there is no scientific support for this notion.

This is one of the more common forms of the disease and is thought to affect around 1% of the population; it is much more prevalent in woman, and affects three times as many women as men. It typically starts to develop between the ages of thirty to fifty. The disease starts when the control of the bodies defence mechanisms fail, and it starts to attack healthy muscle tissue.
 The aim of this website is to keep people informed on all of the latest scientific research that is being carried out aiming to prevent arthritis and making it an esier disease to deal with. The Arthritis Chronicle hopes that the information available on the site will be a great resource for both sufferers and researchers.  

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