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As part of the international campaign of the bone and joint decade, we aimed to present epidemiological data on the prevalence of major joint complaints in a Central European region. Ten thousand subjects aged between 14 and 65, selected randomly by the Hungarian central office of statistics from three counties in southern Hungary, were surveyed using our own questionnaire based on widely accepted scoring systems in the literature, focusing on major degenerative joint complaints, and using the short form 36 (SF-36) questionnaire. We found that the prevalence of hip pain in the observed group was 22.2%, the prevalence of knee pain 30.3%, and frequent ankle pain occurred in 9.7%. The results of the SF-36 questionnaire showed that with the exception of social function, neither of the values of the examined health dimensions reached levels of other international surveys. Details of the survey and the possible causes of the higher prevalence are discussed, along with the results of the SF-36 questionnaire.
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En collaboration avec la campagne internationale sur la bone and joint decade, notre but a été de mettre en évidence des données épidémiologiques sur la prévalence des lésions articulaires, dans une région du centre Europe. Pour cela, 10.000 patients âgés entre 14 et 65 ans ont été sélectionnés par l’Office Cental Hongrois de Statistiques, patients provenant de trois comtés du Sud de la Hongrie en usant d’un questionnaire, rempli par les patients eux-mêmes et basé sur des scores largement acceptés par la population orthopédique et, notamment, le score SF 36. Nous avons trouvé une prédominance de douleur de la hanche dans ce groupe, avec un taux de 22,8%, le pourcentage de douleur du genou étant de 30,8% et, celle de la cheville, de 9,7%. Les résultats du questionnaire SF 36 ont montré qu’en dehors des problèmes sociaux, les valeurs retrouvées se situaient à des niveaux comparables à ceux d’autres études internationales. Les détails de cette étude et les étiologies possibles sont discutés avec les résultats du questionnaire SF 36.
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Horváth, G., Than, P., Bellyei, Á. et al. Prevalence of degenerative joint complaints of the lower extremity: a representative study. International Orthopaedics (SICO 30, 118–122 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00264-005-0033-3
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