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Musculoskeletal conditions are a major burden on individuals, health systems, and social
care systems, with indirect costs being predominant. This burden has been recognized by …

Background Measuring disease and injury burden in populations requires a composite
metric that captures both premature mortality and the prevalence and severity of ill-health …

Objectives To estimate the national prevalence of rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases
(RMDs) in the adult Portuguese population and to determine their impact on health-related …

ContextCommon pain conditions appear to have an adverse effect on work, but no
comprehensive estimates exist on the amount of productive time lost in the US workforce …

As the most common form of joint disease, osteoarthritis (OA) is associated with an
extremely high economic burden. This burden is largely attributable to the effects of …

Symptomatic osteoarthritis (OA) causes substantial physical and psychosocial disability.
This article delineates the characteristic symptoms and signs associated with OA and how …

Chronic diseases such as arthritis, diabetes, and heart disease that cause pain, functional
impairment, social and emotional dysfunction, and premature loss of wage earnings …

OBJECTIVE: To compare the prevalence of cardiovascular diseases and their risk factors
between patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), psoriatic arthritis (PsA), and ankylosing …

This study was undertaken to update and revise the estimate of the economic impact of
obesity in the United States. A prevalence‐based approach to the cost of illness was used to …