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© 1982 British Society for Rheumatology

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POLYMYALGIA RHEUMATICA IN A DEFINED ELDERLY COMMUNITY

ALAN J. SILMAN1, and H. L. F. CURREY2

1Department of Epidemiology, London Hospital Medical College London E1 2AD
2Department of Rheumatology, London Hospital Medical College London E1 2AD

Correspondence to: Requests for reprints to Dr. A.J. Silman.

Responses to a symptom questionnaire, together with an erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) estimation, were used to screen for polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) in 247 elderly people receiving social services care. Three cases of PMR were discovered of whom two were previously undiagnosed. The prevalence of PMR in this study is higher than that estimated from hospital ascertained cases.


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