Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Surveillance Summaries, March 2018 / Vol. 67 / No. SS-4

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• Alternative Title:
  Geographic Variations in Arthritis Prevalence, Health-Related Characteristics, and Management — U.S. 2015
• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Surveillance Summaries
• Personal Author:
  Barbour, Kamil E. ; Moss, Susan ; Croft, Janet B. ; Helmick, Charles G. ; Theis, Kristina A. ; Brady, Teresa J. ; Murphy, Louise B. ; Hootman, Jennifer M. ; Greenlund, Kurt J. ; Lu, Hua ; Wang, Yan
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (U.S.). Division of Population Health ; 2G2S Corporation
• Description:
  Doctor-diagnosed arthritis is a common chronic condition affecting an estimated 23% (54 million) of adults in the U.S. greatly influencing quality of life and costing approximately $300 billion annually. The geographic variations in arthritis prevalence, health-related characteristics, and management among states and territories are unknown. Therefore, public health professionals need to understand arthritis in their areas to target dissemination of evidence-based interventions that reduce arthritis morbidity. The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System is an annual, random-digit–dialed landline and cellular telephone survey of noninstitutionalized adults aged ≥18 years residing in the U.S. Self-reported data are collected from the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico. Unadjusted and age-standardized prevalences of arthritis, arthritis health-related characteristics, and arthritis management were calculated. County-level estimates were calculated using a validated statistical modeling method. In 2015, in the 50 states and the District of Columbia, median age-standardized prevalence of arthritis was 23.0% (range: 17.2%–33.6%). Modeled prevalence of arthritis varied considerably by county (range: 11.2%–42.7%). In 13 states that administered the arthritis management module, among adults with arthritis, the age-standardized median percentage of participation in a self-management education course was 14.5% (range: 9.1%–19.0%), being told by a health care provider to engage in physical activity or exercise was 58.5% (range: 52.3%–61.9%), and being told to lose weight to manage arthritis symptoms (if overweight or obese) was 44.5% (range: 35.1%–53.2%). Respondents with arthritis who lived in the quartile of states with the highest prevalences of arthritis had the highest percentages of negative health-related characteristics (i.e., arthritis-attributable activity limitations, arthritis-attributable severe joint pain, and arthritis-attributable social participation restriction; ≥14 physically unhealthy days during the past 30 days; ≥14 mentally unhealthy days during the past 30 days; obesity; and leisure-time physical inactivity) and the lowest percentage of leisure-time walking.
• Subjects:
  Activities Of Daily Living Adolescent Adult Aged Arthralgia Arthritis Female Health Status Disparities Humans Male Middle Aged Prevalence Residence Characteristics Risk Factors Surveillance Summaries Young Adult

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• Source:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Surveillance Summaries, 2018; v. 67, no. 4
• Series:
  Surveillance Summaries: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• DOI:
  http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/MMWRss6704a1
• ISSN:
  1546-0738 (print) ; 1545-8636 (digital)
• Pubmed ID:
  29543787
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5857191
• Document Type:
  Journal Issue
• Name as Subject:
  Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (U.S.)
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  32 pdf pages
• Volume:
  67
• Issue:
  4
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
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  urn:sha-512:ad42cf9ea7811338e2417c640bd8ad2808a3621d121667ca66dd5ddadaf0e397fbcd405cde9b9fe3d405da0951d1678248b281ad00f0554087a4139c32887c84
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/60066/cdc_60066_DS1.pdf
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