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The
following statistics are from the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and
Skin Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the
Arthritis Foundation:
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More
than 40 million people in the US have some form of arthritis (one in every
seven people).
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It
is estimated that by the year 2020, more than 60 million people in the
United States will have arthritis.
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Rheumatic
diseases are the leading cause of disability among persons age 65 and
older.
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Approximately
20.7 million adults in the United States have the most common form of
arthritis, osteoarthritis, also called degenerative joint disease. Most
persons over the age of 75 are affected with osteoarthritis in at least one
joint, making this condition a leading cause of disability in the US.
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Rheumatoid
arthritis, the most crippling form of arthritis, affects approximately 2.1
million Americans and two to three times more women than men.
Further, the average onset for rheumatoid arthritis is between the ages of
20 and 45 years old.
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Nine
out of 10 people who have lupus are women, and lupus is three times more
common in African-American women than Caucasian women.
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Nine
out of 10 people who have fibromyalgia are women. Most commonly,
fibromyalgia affects women of childbearing age.
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