The prevalence of inflammatory back pain in a UK primary care population.

@article{Hamilton2014ThePO,
  title={The prevalence of inflammatory back pain in a UK primary care population.},
  author={Louise Hamilton and Alexander J Macgregor and Victoria Warmington and Edward Pinch and Karl Gaffney},
  journal={Rheumatology},
  year={2014},
  volume={53 1},
  pages={
          161-4
        }
}
OBJECTIVE Inflammatory back pain (IBP) is the earliest and most common symptom of axial SpA. However, there is very little information about the prevalence of IBP in the UK. In this cross-sectional cohort study we examined the prevalence of IBP in a UK primary care population using three published IBP criteria. METHODS Potential participants aged 18-80 years were identified from the records of a large general practice in Norfolk, UK, with 17 177 patients. Read codes were used to identify… 
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