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The Incidence of Primary Systemic Vasculitis in Jerusalem: A 20-year Hospital-based Retrospective Study.

J Rheumatol

June 2016

From the Department of Internal Medicine, Rheumatology Unit and Infectious Disease Unit, Shaare-Zedek Medical Center; Hebrew University Medical School; the Rheumatology Unit, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.G. Nesher, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine and the Rheumatology Unit, Shaare-Zedek Medical Center, and the Hebrew University Medical School; E. Ben-Chetrit, MD, Department of Internal Medicine and the Infectious Disease Unit, Shaare-Zedek Medical Center, and Lecturer, Hebrew University Medical School; B. Mazal, MD, the Rheumatology Unit, Hadassah Medical Center; G.S. Breuer, MD, Clinical Senior Lecturer, Department of Internal Medicine and the Rheumatology Unit, Shaare-Zedek Medical Center, and Hebrew University Medical School.

Objective: The incidence of primary systemic vasculitides varies among different geographic regions and ethnic origins. The aim of this study was to examine the incidence rates of vasculitides in the Jerusalem Jewish population, and to examine possible trends in incidence rates over a 20-year period.

Methods: The clinical databases of inpatients at the 2 medical centers in Jerusalem were searched for patients with vasculitis diagnosed between 1990-2009.

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