Prevalence and incidence in patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases: A nationwide population‐based study in Taiwan

Abstract

Objective. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence, incidence, and mortality rates of autoimmune rheumatic diseases (ARDs) by using a population-based database. Methods. We used the longitudinal health insurance database (comprising 1,000,000 beneficiaries) of the Taiwan

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“…A total of 1808 articles were excluded based on screening of abstracts or titles, leaving 72 articles for the full-text review and assessment for eligibility. Fifty-one of these articles were excluded after retrieving the full-text articles (figure 1), leaving 21 eligible studies for inclusion in the meta-analysis 13––33. The agreement between reviewers for the eligibility of articles was 100%.…”

“…Of included studies, 15 reported incidence or prevalence rates in European populations, 2 in America30 31 and 4 in Asia13 19 20 33 (tables 1 and 2). …”

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