Review article

Epidemiology of inflammatory rheumatic diseases

Branimir Anić ; Department for Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Clinic for Internal Medicine of the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Clinical Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Chronic inflammatory rheumatic diseases are becoming one of the central problems of public health services. Prolongation of expected life span due to better diagnostics and better and more efficacious therapeutic procedures resulted in increasing number of patients with chronic inflammatory diseases in population. Any serious consideration about health problem must include adequate epidemiologic analysis. This text briefly covers the problems of descriptive and analytic epidemiological studies and shortly addresses results of Croatian epidemiological studies of inflammatory rheumatic diseases in the last ten years.

Keywords

rheumatic diseases; epidemiology

Hrčak ID:

137891

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/137891

Publication date:

23.10.2014.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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