{"id":5734,"date":"2021-04-30T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=5734"},"modified":"2021-04-30T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T15:00:00","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-adults-aged-18-years-or-older-with-arthritis-by-sex-and-age-group-national-health-interview-survey-united-states-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2021\/04\/30\/5734\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Aged 18 Years or Older with Arthritis, by Sex and Age Group \u2014 National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-5737\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/11\/mm7017a7-f.gif\" alt=\"mm7017a7-F\" width=\"442\" height=\"305\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 2019, among adults aged 18 years or older, prevalence of arthritis (including rheumatoid arthritis, gout, lupus, and fibromyalgia) increased with age among both men and women.<\/p>\n<p>For men, prevalence increased from 5.8% among those aged 18\u201344 years to 22.3% among those aged 45\u201364 years, 40.1% among those aged 65\u201374 years, and 44.7% among those aged 75 years or older.<\/p>\n<p>For women, prevalence increased from 6.6% among those aged 18\u201344 years to 29.3% among those aged 45\u201364 years, 48.6% among those aged 65\u201374 years, and 57.8% among those aged 75 years or older.<\/p>\n<p>Women were more likely to have arthritis than were men overall (24.3% versus 18.3%) and in all age groups except 18\u201344 years, where the difference did not reach statistical significance.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics. National Health Interview Survey, 2019.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7017a7.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7017a7.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2019, among adults aged 18 years or older, prevalence of arthritis (including rheumatoid arthritis, gout, lupus, and fibromyalgia) increased with age among both men and women. For men, prevalence increased from 5.8% among those aged 18\u201344 years to 22.3% among those aged 45\u201364 years, 40.1% among those aged 65\u201374 years, and 44.7% among those<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62223,14337,53746,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}