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October 7, 2016.
According to an Ifop survey for Inserm (National Institute of Health and Medical Research), the Arthritis Foundation and the French Rheumatology Society, 1 in 3 young people suffer from joint pain.
1 in 2 French people suffer from joint pain
October 12 will be World Rheumatism Day. An opportunity to take stock of a phenomenon that is affecting more and more people. A study conducted by Ifop for Inserm indeed reveals thatone in two French people suffers from joint pain. And too few are those who know how to put words to these pains.
” Most of them do not associate their osteo-articular pain with the possibility of being treated for rheumatism. », Explains Inserm, in a press release. However “ joint diseases are diseases whose impact on the quality of life, sleep, but also mortality is major. ” Joint pain is also the main cause of sick leave.
Young people are not spared
But what appeals in this study is the increasingly younger age of people who suffer from rheumatism. Often associated with grandparents, joint pain “ is not necessarily a problem for the elderly », Recalls Lionel Comole, director of the Arthritis Foundation. According to the Ifop study, 1 in 3 young people aged 18 to 24 suffers from rheumatism.
And these ailments are not without consequences for health. Did you know, for example, that having osteoarthritis of the knee increases your risk of cardiovascular death by 50% ? ” If we want to fight against a sedentary lifestyle, we must no longer consider rheumatism as benign », Explains Francis Berenbaum, president of the French Society of Rheumatology and researcher at Inserm. ” You have to learn to preserve your joints as you preserve your heart “. Treatments exist, ask your doctor for advice.
To find out more: Joint pain: what it betrays