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Table 2 Percentage of patients who were younger than 65 years old and working at the onset of symptoms in the QUEST-RA study in 32 countries

From: Work disability remains a major problem in rheumatoid arthritis in the 2000s: data from 32 countries in the QUEST-RA Study

 

Percentage workinga at onset

Country

Women

Men

All

Sweden

88%

90%

88%

Finland

83%

86%

84%

Estonia

83%

82%

83%

Lithuania

82%

85%

83%

UK

80%

90%

82%

Latvia

79%

100%

83%

USA

79%

93%

83%

France

78%

86%

80%

Denmark

76%

93%

80%

Hungary

75%

73%

75%

Brazil

73%

83%

73%

Germany

72%

89%

75%

Canada

65%

89%

70%

Argentina

64%

100%

67%

Russia

63%

96%

69%

India

62%

93%

67%

Poland

61%

78%

63%

Japan

60%

85%

64%

The Netherlands

60%

82%

67%

Ireland

59%

91%

71%

UAE

59%

100%

64%

Spain

57%

85%

65%

Serbia

56%

70%

57%

Italy

54%

82%

60%

Egypt

50%

73%

51%

Greece

49%

73%

55%

Morocco

42%

100%

48%

Kosovo

23%

57%

28%

Turkey

19%

66%

25%

Norway

NA

NA

NA

Total

64%

85%

68%

  1. NA, not applicable; QUEST-RA, Quantitative Standard Monitoring of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis; UAE, United Arab Emirates. aDefined in Materials and methods.