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Number of people aged over 16 with rheumatoid arthritis (total) (6621) Metric type
- Help text
- This is the number of people aged over 16 with rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease that causes inflammation in your joints. Thus, the joint becomes painful, stiff and swollen, this inflammatory activity can ultimately cause irreversible damage. The sooner one starts treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, the more effective it's likely to be, so early diagnosis and intensive treatment is important. There are currently no routinely collected data on the prevalence of this condition so the data provided here are small area modelled estimates. The estimates are based on a statistical model commissioned by Arthritis Research UK from Imperial College London using data extracted from the Clinical Practice Research Database (CPRD) on 23/01/2015. After analysis, data extracted from the CPRD was combined with known local data about different risk factors and a model was produced and applied to ONS Mid-Year Population Estimates for 2015. If you would like to find out more about how the estimates were modelled, including the technical document, please contact data@arthritisresearchuk.org.
- Modified
- 12 Jun 2020
- Data last updated
- 19 Sep 2021
- Short label
- People with rheumatoid arthritis (aged >16)
- Status
- Live
- Output precision
- 0
- Polarity
- a low value is good
- Measure
- Population aged > 16 years
- Dataset
- Prevalence of rheumatoid arthritis in people over 16 years
- Collection
- Musculoskeletal Conditions
- Source
- Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID)
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