COMPLAINTS OF JOINT PAIN IN RURAL MONGOLIAN POPULATION (PRELIMINARY RESULTS)

Abstract

The aim of our research is to study the features of complaints of joint syndrome among rural inhabitants of Mongolia aged 18 years and older. 564 people were examined at present (317 women and 247 men). The average age of the patients was 43.1 years, the average age of women - 45.6 years and men - 40.1 years. It was revealed that 55.5 % of respondents ever had pain in the knee and hip joints, 46.3 % of respondents reported about joint pain at the time of the survey. 43.4 % of respondents had arthroncus of large and small joints of arms and legs in anamnesis, 34 % of respondents informed about arthroncus at the time of the survey. Among women, 60 % of the respondents experienced pain in large joints of the legs in their lifetime, 51.4 % of women complained of pain in the knee and hip joints, continuing at this time. 48.4 % of men had pain in big joints of the legs ever in life, about 40 % of men reported joint pain while polling. About 44 % of women and men noted arthroncus of small and large joints in anamnesis, 34 % of both women and men had arthroncus at the time of the survey. Only one third of patients with joint complaints ever appealed to the doctor about that, and only 34 patients (6.2 %) were examined by a rheumatologist.

Keywords

• joint pain
• arthroncus
• rural population
• mongolia