Re: RESEARCH - Association between vitiligo and spondyloarthritis

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Very interesting!

Thanks for this info.

Kate

At 10:47 AM 10/29/2006, you wrote:

>Journal of Rheumatology

>February 2001

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>Association Between Vitiligo and Spondyloarthritis

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>ABSTRACT.

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>Objective. To establish if spondyloarthritis (SpA) and vitiligo occur

>together more frequently than by chance.

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>Methods. All consecutive patients with SpA seen in a 6 month period were

>evaluated for vitiligo by an experienced dermatologist. The control group

>included the 2 consecutive patients without SpA seen after each patient with

>SpA.

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>Results. Two hundred thirty-four patients with SpA (131 men, 103 women; mean

>age 59 ± 18.3 yrs) were seen in the study period. Of these, 43 had

>ankylosing spondylitis (AS), 112 psoriatic arthritis (PsA), 14 SpA

>associated with inflammatory bowel disease, 64 undifferentiated SpA, and one

>reactive arthritis. The 468 control patients (360 women, 108 men; mean age

>68.5 ± 2 yrs) had various degenerative and inflammatory rheumatic diseases.

>Eight (3.4%) patients out of 234 with SpA had type A vitiligo. In the

>control group, 5 (1.06%) out of 468 had type A vitiligo. The difference was

>statistically significant (p < 0.05). Of the 8 patients with coexisting

>vitiligo and SpA, 4 had PsA, 2 primary AS, one AS associated with Crohn's

>disease, and one undifferentiated SpA. Of the 5 patients with vitiligo in

>the control group, one had rheumatoid arthritis, one Sjögren's syndrome, one

>palindromic rheumatism, one crystal arthropathy, and one osteoarthritis.

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>Conclusion. Our results suggest that vitiligo and SpA do not coexist by

>chance and that vitiligo should be included in the list of diseases

>associated with SpA. (J Rheumatol 2001;28:313-4)

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>http://www.jrheum.com/abstracts/abstracts01/313.html

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>Not an MD

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>I'll tell you where to go!

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>Mayo Clinic in Rochester

>http://www.mayoclinic.org/rochester

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>s Hopkins Medicine

>http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org

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