The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has just updated its Rheumatoid Arthritis web pages These are part of the AIHW's new web-based musculoskeletal conditions
compendium and provide the latest statistics on the condition from a wide variety of sources, as well as fact sheets and powerpoint presentations on who gets rheumatoid arthritis, how many people are hospitalised, the use of medications and quality of life of sufferers.
In 2011-12,
around 2% of the population (more than 445,000 Australians), reported having
rheumatoid arthritis, with 5 out of every 8 being women. In the past 10 years, the rate of hospitalisation has increased 55%.
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