Background: Smoking is one of the main environmental risk factors involved in several rheumatic diseases according to ACR 2014, it is included among the risk factors for severe axial spondyloarthritis.
Objectives: The objective is to study the association between smoking and the activity of the disease, the functional impact and the severity of the axial spondyloarthritis.
Methods: It is a transversal study with a descriptive and analytical aim, during the period between January 2014 and December 2015 conducted in the department of rheumatology at the CHU Hassan II of Fes.