Symposium ArticleEpidemiology of Spondyloarthritis in Argentina
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PATIENTS AND METHODS
Consecutive patients with SpA attending ambulatory care between June and December 2006 in 11 rheumatology services located at 6 different Argentine provinces were enrolled. Patients were diagnosed in accordance to the classification criteria of the European Spondyloarthropathy Study Group1 and were included in a prospective, observational and multicentre cohort of SpA in Argentina (RESPONDIA-Argentina). Data were collected, transmitted online and stored in the Spanish SpA Registry Web site
RESULTS
General and sociodemographic features of the patients are provided in Table 1, Table 2. Of the 402 patients included in the study, 59% were men; the median age was 48.3 years (IQR: 38.3-58 years), and the median disease duration was 8 years (IQR: 4-14 years). Ethnicity was predominantly white (n = 285, 70.8%) or white-native (n = 92, 22.8%).
Patient diagnoses were as follows: 242 (60.2%) had PsA, 86 patients (21.4%) had AS, 33 (8.2%) had uSpA, 25 (6.2%) had ReA, 10 (2.5%) had SpA associated with
DISCUSSION
The data collected in this study show a predominance of patients with PsA and AS, with PsA, in this case, more frequent than AS; these results are opposite to prevalence reported in other series in which AS was predominant or in which prevalence was similar between both both groups.5., 8., 9.
It is important to emphasize the long period of diagnostic delay for AS and juvenile AS patients, probably due to the insidious and oligosymptomatic onset and initial course of the diseases, which may
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors gratefully acknowledge the important participation and contributions of the following RESPONDIA members in our study: Cesar Graf, MD, Centro Medico Mitre, Parana, Argentina; Alejandro Alvarellos, MD, Hospital Privado de Córdoba, Cordoba, Argentina; Romulo Wong, MD, Sanatorio Plaza, Rosario, Argentina; Sergio Paira, MD, Hospital J.M. Cullen, Santa Fe, Argentina; Gustavo Casado, MD, Hospital Militar Central, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Hugo Scherbarth, MD, H.I.G.A Dr. Oscar Alende, Mar
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This study was supported by Fundación Reumatologica Argentina.
Presented at the annual research and education meeting of Spondyloarthritis Research and Treatment Network (SPARTAN), July 23–24, 2010, Houston, Texas.