Prevalence of Behcet's disease in Iran: a WHO-ILAR COPCORD stage I study

Autor:	Arash Tehrani Banihashemi, Alireza Khabazi, Fereydoun Davatchi, Mehrzad Hadj-Aliloo, Bozorgmehr Arabzadeh, Amir Salari, Kamal Essalat-Manesh, Farhad Shahram, Mohammed Hossein Forouzanfar, Jaleh Gholami, Abdolhadi Nadji, Behrang Alipour, Mansoor Salessi, Maziar Moradi, Massoomeh Akhlaghi, Mansoor Karimifar, Ahmadreza Jamshidi
Rok vydání:	2007
Předmět:	Response rate (survey) medicine.medical_specialty education.field_of_study Pediatrics business.industry education Population Mixed ethnicity Behcet's disease medicine.disease Confidence interval Rheumatology World health Internal medicine parasitic diseases Epidemiology medicine business Demography
Zdroj:	APLAR Journal of Rheumatology. 10:239-243
ISSN:	1479-8077 0219-0494
DOI:	10.1111/j.1479-8077.2007.00295.x
Popis:	Aim: To elucidate the prevalence of Behcet's disease (BD) during the World Health Organization-International League of Associations for Rheumatology Community Oriented Program for Control of Rheumatic Disease study in Iran. The old estimate was 16 per 100,000 inhabitants, but this was just an estimation and a more precise figure was required. Materials and methods: Tehran, the capital of Iran with 1/10th of Iran's population, was selected as the field for the COPCORD study. The population of Iran is of mixed ethnicity (Caucasians 75.4%, Turks 22%, and Semites 2.6%). The same distribution was found in Tehran's general population. Tehran has 22 districts; 50 clusters were randomly selected from them. Interviewers passed an exam by interviewing 20 subjects. The observed agreement was 0.96. The chance expected agreement was 0.531325. The kappa coefficient was 0.919 (standard error: 0.112). The z-score was 8.19. The one tailed P-value was
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