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Article: Heart disease plus arthritis equals inactivity.(MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS)
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- Family Practice News
- Article date:
- April 1, 2009
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More than half of adults with heart disease also had arthritis, and they were 30% more likely to be physically inactive than were those with heart disease alone, in a survey of 757,959 Americans.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed data from all 50 states in the 2005 and 2007 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. In telephone interviews, 3% of respondents said they had been diagnosed with heart disease alone, 23% reported a diagnosis of arthritis alone, 4% said they had both heart disease and arthritis, and 70% had neither condition.
Arthritis was present in 57% of the respondents with heart disease, compared with 27% of the ...