Fernández Carballido Cristina
Hospital General de Elda, Alicante, España.
Reumatol Clin. 2010 Mar;6 Suppl 1:6-10. doi: 10.1016/j.reuma.2009.12.005. Epub 2010 Feb 19.
Spondyloarthropathies are a group of diseases with an important social and health-care impact. Their prevalence is not low, affecting around 1,9% of the general population and represents around 13% of patients of the Spanish Rheumatology departments, according to the National Spondyloarthropathy Validation Study. On the other hand, it is estimated that ankylosing spondylitis, the paradigmatic disease in the group, leads to a mean yearly loss of work of 62 days per patient, leading 20% of patients to change professions and another 20% to a situation of permanent incapacity. However, up to this moment it has not received the same degree of attention as other rheumatic diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis or osteoporosis.
脊柱关节病是一类对社会和医疗保健有重要影响的疾病。其患病率不低，根据全国脊柱关节病验证研究，约影响1.9%的普通人群，占西班牙风湿病科患者的13%左右。另一方面，据估计，该组中的典型疾病强直性脊柱炎导致每位患者平均每年损失62个工作日，20%的患者因此更换职业，另有20%的患者永久丧失工作能力。然而，到目前为止，它尚未得到与类风湿关节炎或骨质疏松症等其他风湿性疾病相同程度的关注。
