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Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics of 223 BD patients
From: Associations between the HLA-Apolymorphism and the clinical manifestations of Behcet's disease
| Gender (M:F) | 110:113 |
| Age at diagnosis (years, mean ± SD) | 43.1 ± 10.0 |
| Disease duration (years, mean ± SD) | 12.8 ± 9.2 |
| Clinical manifestations | n (%) |
| Oral ulcer | 223 (100) |
| Genital ulcer | 159 (71.3) |
| Skin lesions | 180 (80.7) |
| Positive pathergy test | 94/182 (51.6) |
| Uveitis | 85 (38.1) |
| Retinal vasculitis | 10 (4.5) |
| Joint involvement | 125 (56.1) |
| Vascular involvement | 33 (14.8) |
| Central nervous system involvement | 10 (4.5) |
| HLA-B*51† | 81 (36.3) |
