Prevalence of symptomatic osteoarthritis in rural areas of Shanxi Province

VernacularTitle:山西省农村地区症状性骨关节炎流行状况调查
Author: Junfeng ZHANG ; Linghua SONG ; Haiyuan DONG ; Guifen LIU
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: Osteoarthritis; Prevalence; Rural health
From: Chinese Journal of Rheumatology 2014;18(7):444-448
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To study the prevalence of symptomatic osteoarthritis (OA) in rural areas of Shanxi,China.Methods All the residents above 16 years old from the villages chosen by multi-stage stratified cluster sampling in Yangcheng County and Pianguan County in Shanxi Province were investigated with COPCORD procedure of WHO.All the respondents signed the informed consent forms.All statistical analysis were carried out using SAS 9.2 and SPSS standard version 13.0.Chi-square test was used for statistical analysis.P value ＜0.05 was regarded as statistically significant.Results The investigation in these two counties covered 7 126 residents,including 1 734 symptomatic OA patients,with a prevalence rate of 24.3％,where knee OA had the highest prevalence rate [13.8％(983/7 126)],other figures were as follows:lumbar vertebra,neck,hand,shoulder,elbow,ankle,hip,wrist,thoracic vertebra and foot.There were statistical differences in the prevalence of knee,ankle,neck,shoulder and hand between the two genders (P＜0.05).Conclusion The prevalence of symptomatic OA in rural areas of Shanxi,China is relatively high,but the risk factors still need to be further studied and proved.