Statistics
The following statistics are the latest available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, (part of the National Institutes of Health), and the Arthritis Foundation:
- An estimated 43 million people in the US have some form of arthritis (one in every six people).
- Nearly 300,000 children in the US have arthritis.
- Septic arthritis occurs in six out of 100,000 people.
- It is estimated that by the year 2020, 60 million people in the US will have arthritis.
- 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.
- Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis occurs in 70,000 to 75,000 children in the US. Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis is more common in Caucasian children than in African-American or Asian American Children.
- The majority of people who have lupus are young women (late teens to 30s). Lupus is more common in African-American women than Caucasian, Asian American, Latino, or Native American women.
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