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Age-standardized arthritis prevalence among US adults was higher among women, at 20.9 percent, than among men, at 16.3 percent, in 2019 to 2021.
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In the source's own words
“Age-standardized arthritis prevalences were higher among women (20.9%) than men (16.3%)”
Prevalence of Diagnosed Arthritis, United States, 2019-2021, Elizabeth A. Fallon et al., Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2023, Abstract.
Open the original (DOI 10.15585/mmwr.mm7241a1)- What it measures
- From the combined 2019 to 2021 National Health Interview Survey, the CDC's MMWR report on diagnosed arthritis. Age-standardized rates adjust for the age structure of the population, so they are not the same as the 21.2 percent of all adults reported without that adjustment.
- What it does not show
- Self-reported doctor diagnosis, and the definition includes rheumatoid arthritis, gout, lupus and fibromyalgia, not only hand arthritis. Figures are for adults aged 18 and older as analyzed in the report.
In the data
A row of Disability Statistics: Conditions That Make Typing Hard, as CDC 2023, arthritis, US women: 20.9 percent.
- Condition
- Arthritis
- Who
- US adults, women
- Country
- United States
- How measured
- Self-reported
- Year
- 2021
- Note
- Age-standardized prevalence for women, not the unadjusted figure for all adults.