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Prevalence of spondyloarthritis in Serbia: a EULAR endorsed study
  1. Mirjana I Zlatkovic-Svenda1,
  2. Roksanda M Stojanovic1,
  3. Sandra B Sipetic-Grujicic2,
  4. Marija M Radak-Perovic1,
  5. Nemanja S Damjanov1,
  6. Francis Guillemin3
  1. 1Institute of Rheumatology, University of Belgrade School of Medicine, Belgrade, Serbia
  2. 2Institute of Epidemiology, University of Belgrade School of Medicine, Belgrade, Serbia
  3. 3INSERM—CIC-EC, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation, University Hospital, and Université de Lorraine, EA 4360 APEMAC, Nancy, France
  1. Correspondence to Dr Mirjana Zlatkovic-Svenda, Institute of Rheumatology, Resavska 69, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia; mirjanazlatkovicsvenda{at}gmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2015-207359

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    In order to determine the burden of inflammatory rheumatic diseases across Europe, the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) unique-methodology prevalence survey of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and spondyloarthritis (SpA) was carried out in several European countries, including Serbia. Aiming to enable comparable results, it comprised a common two-stage approach: a detection phase (validated screening telephone questionnaire, primarily tested in France1 ,2) and a confirmation phase (according to a certified rheumatologist or, for previously non-diagnosed cases, a rheumatology examination).

    The Serbian SpA prevalence survey was conducted by 30 trained interviewers on urban population in four Serbian towns: Belgrade (north), and Čačak, Kruševac and Užice (south), by telephone (every 100th telephone number) from April to October 2008. The sample covered 36.5% of the total Serbian population with more than 99% Caucasians, mostly orthodox Serbs (83%), <4% Hungarians, Gypsies and Bosnians and a minority of other nationalities. Respondents were asked whether they have (or …

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    Footnotes

    • Funding This work was supported by a EULAR grant, under the EULAR prevalence survey of rheumatoid arthritis and spondyloarthropathy, endorsed by the EULAR Standing Committee of Epidemiology and Health Service Research.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Ethics approval Ethics Committee, Institute of Rheumatology, University of Belgrade, Serbia.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.