Authors
Fereydoun Davatchi, Ahmad‐Reza JAMSHIDI, Arash Tehrani BANIHASHEMI, Jaleh Gholami, Mohammed Hossein FOROUZANFAR, Maziar Moradi, Ma'ssoomeh Akhlaghi, Ali‐Reza KHABAZI, Amir‐Hossein SALARI, Mansoor Salessi, Mansoor Karimifar, Kamal ESSALAT‐MANESH, Mehrzad HADJ‐ALILOO, Bozorgmehr Arabzadeh, Behrang Alipour, Farhad Shahram, Abdolhadi Nadji
Publication date
2007/9
Journal
APLAR Journal of Rheumatology
Volume
10
Issue
3
Pages
239-243
Publisher
Blackwell Publishing Asia
Description
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 …
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Scholar articles
F Davatchi, AR JAMSHIDI, AT BANIHASHEMI… - APLAR Journal of Rheumatology, 2007