Epidemiology and complications of rheumatoid arthritis in the Indigenous Australian population.

ABSTRACT: Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) can present differently in Indigenous populations. Data on RA in Indigenous Australians (IA) are almost non-existent. A population-based cohort study of disease incidence (IR) and point prevalence (PR) rates per 100.000 and clinical outcomes in IA patients hospitalised with RA compared to non-Indigenous (NI) patients with RA using longitudinal administrative health data over 30 years. For IA patients (n = 282) the RA IR was 23.52 (CI 14.99-35.14) which did not differ from the IR in NI patients 27.85 (CI 18.48-40.29) (p = 0.67) with the 2015-point PR in IA at 373.5 (CI 336.5-413.3) versus 375.3 (CI 338.3-145.2) in the NI population (p = 0.91). At index admission, IA patients with RA were younger, more often smokers with a higher prevalence of diabetes mellitus and

SUBMITTER: Nossent JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12331860 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature