Journal article
The Epidemiology of Rheumatoid Arthritis in Ontario, Canada
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Epidemiologic assessments of sufficiently large populations are required in order to obtain robust estimates of disease prevalence and incidence, particularly when exploring the influence of various factors (age, sex, calendar time). We undertook this study to describe the epidemiology of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) over the past 15 years.
METHODS: We used the Ontario Rheumatoid Arthritis administrative Database (ORAD), a validated …
Authors
Widdifield J; Paterson JM; Bernatsky S; Tu K; Tomlinson G; Kuriya B; Thorne JC; Bombardier C
Journal
Arthritis & Rheumatology, Vol. 66, No. 4, pp. 786–793
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
April 2014
DOI
10.1002/art.38306
ISSN
2326-5191