Abstract
Spondyloarthritis (SpA) represents a group of interrelated diseases with common clinical features and a close association with HLA-B27. Reports of incidence and prevalence of diseases vary depending on methodological differences between studies, the case definition used to classify disease, and the prevalence of HLA-B27 in the population studied. Newly proposed criteria for axial SpA and peripheral SpA present a new approach to facilitate classification of the SpA into 2 main subtypes and the criteria allow earlier detection of patents with inflammatory back pain. These criteria were developed for use in a (specialized) clinical setting and not for large epidemiologic studies.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 441-476 |
| Number of pages | 36 |
| Journal | Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Aug 2012 |
Keywords
- Spondyloarthritis
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Reactive arthritis
- Epidemiology
- Incidence
- Prevalence