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Arthritis and diabetes
Author(s) -
Hillson Rowan
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
practical diabetes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.205
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 2047-2900
pISSN - 2047-2897
DOI - 10.1002/pdi.2218
Subject(s) - medicine , diabetes mellitus , arthritis , endocrinology
Copyright © 2019 John Wiley & Sons PRACTICAL DIABETES Vol. 36 No. 3 77 A has troubled mankind for millennia. The Royal Powder, Pulvis Basilicus, was made by mixing ‘Diagridium Ceruss of Antimony, Cream of Tartar, and Mercurius Dulcis... This Cathartick is likewise very proper for Rheumatick and Gouty persons, for whom it is best made into pills... They greatly dissolve the viscid lentor of the Juices and prevent their settling upon the Joints for farther Mischief.’1 This 18th century remedy which is, of course, poisonous, is one of thousands of treatments for joint pain. A large American study interviewed people in randomly selected US households. Diagnosed arthritis was reported by 48.1% of people with diagnosed dia betes; 55.0% of those with both diabetes and arthritis had arthritisattributable activity limitation (AAAL). After adjusting for age, sex, race/ethnicity, education level, body mass index, and physical activity level, prevalence ratios of arthritis with AAAL among people with dia betes were 1.44 (95% CI 1.35–1.52) compared with 1.21 (1.15–1.28) among those without diabetes.2