Table 5 Cumulative prevalence estimates for cases which satisfy classification criteria applied to GP record data
From: The prevalence of giant cell arteritis and polymyalgia rheumatica in a UK primary care population
Criteria set | All | Female | Male | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N | Pr (95 % CI) | N | Pr (95 % CI) | N | Pr (95 % CI) | |
GCA (21 cases reported in GP records) | ||||||
Hunder | 13 | 0.25 (0.11, 0.39) | 9 | 0.33 (0.12, 0.55) | 4 | 0.16 (0.00, 0.32) |
PMR (117 cases reported in GP records) | ||||||
Bird | 47 | 0.91 (0.65, 1.17) | 28 | 1.04 (0.65, 1.42) | 19 | 0.78 (0.43, 1.12) |
Healey; Chuang; Doran | 62 | 1.20 (0.90, 1.50) | 39 | 1.44 (0.99, 1.89) | 23 | 0.94 (0.56, 1.32) |
Jones and Hazleman | 79 | 1.53 (1.20, 1.87) | 49 | 1.81 (1.31, 2.31) | 30 | 1.22 (0.79, 1.66) |