Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has become one of the top ten autoimmune diseases in India. Studies have reported an increase of 17.8% RA incidences in the past 2 decades as per the national urban registries. The data accrued by the National Arthritis Registry Program (NARP) reflects the number of newly diagnosed RA to be within 0.28- 0.7% in 2016. Understanding the epidemiology of RA in India is necessary to drive strategies for disease management.
This article presents a brief review of the observational studies focused on the prevalence and other disease aspects that will increase the knowledge of the disease burden RA presents in India. A National Perspective Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease with a worldwide prevalence of approximately 0.5% to 1% among adults. RA investigators have noted that prevalence in North America and Europe may be higher than the prevalence in…
