Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 04/11/2018 - 12:59
From the years 2013 to 2015, 54.4 million adults in the United States or 27.7 percent of the population annually have been told by a physician that they had some form of arthritis encompassing rheumatoid arthritis, gout, lupus, or fibromyalgia. The most common form of arthritis is osteoarthritis and other rheumatic conditions include gout, fibromyalgia, and rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis means inflammation of one or more joints. It describes more than one hundred conditions that affect joints, tissues around joints, and connective tissue.