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Review
. 2010 May:85:2-10.
doi: 10.3899/jrheum.091461.

Epidemiology of immune-mediated inflammatory diseases: incidence, prevalence, natural history, and comorbidities

Hani El-Gabalawy  1 , Lyn C Guenther, Charles N Bernstein
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Epidemiology of immune-mediated inflammatory diseases: incidence, prevalence, natural history, and comorbidities

Hani El-Gabalawy et al. J Rheumatol Suppl. 2010 May.

Abstract

Immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMID) present a group of common and highly disabling chronic conditions that share inflammatory pathways. Several incidence and prevalence studies of IMID during the past decades have reported a considerable variation of the disease occurrence among different populations. Overall, the estimated prevalence of IMID in Western society is 5%-7%. This article provides an overview of studies of the incidence, prevalence, natural history, and comorbidities of IMID.

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