Table 3
Frequency of rheumatic disease in Australian Aborigines
| Osteoarthritis | Vertebral osteophytosis | Gout | Ankylosing spondylitis | Pyogenic arthritis | Rheumatoid arthritis | Systemic lupus erythematosus | Low back pain | Rheumatic fever | Bone infection | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paleopathology | ++ | ++ | − | +/− | + | − | ++ | |||
| Ethnographic/historic | − | − | + | − | + | ++ | ||||
| Contempory | ++ | ++ | − | − | + | +/− | ++ | − | ++ | + |
-
++ = common, + = described, − = not described, blank = no data.
