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Occupation as a risk factor in the prevalence of degenerative rheumatic disease of joints and spine

The prevalence of degenerative rheumatic disease /DRD/ of the spine and joints was studied in a population sample aged 37 to 57 years in 1972. Ten years later the same sample, consisting of 1097 men and 1323 women from communities of several areas of SR Croatia-Yugoslavia, was examined in the same way. The diagnosis was based on subjective symptoms and objective clinical signs observed during a detailed examination. A possitive association between occupation and unfavourable posture of the body at work and occurrence of DRD was analysed by means of a computer. No marked connecticn between occupation and DRD in the general population was found, which points to the fact that with average physical loads the rate of DRD of the joints and spine is not Iikely to be greatly increased. However DRD of the spine and joints were observed in farmers, housewives and unskilled workers of both sexes more often than in the average population. In female subjects spondylarthroses was more often found among office workers. /P< 0.01/.

disease; rheumatic; degenerative; joints; spine; prevalence; occupation; risk factor; Croatia; Yugoslavia

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