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Epidemiologic and clinical survey of Behcet's disease in Korea: the first multicenter study

Authors
 D Bang  ;  J H Lee  ;  E S Lee  ;  S Lee  ;  J S Choi  ;  Y K Kim  ;  B K Cho  ;  J K Koh  ;  Y H Won  ;  N I Kim  ;  S D Park  ;  H J Ahn  ;  Y W Lee  ;  H Y Wang  ;  W W Lee  ;  H C Eun  ;  E S Song  ;  S W Lee  ;  C W Lee  ;  C J Lee  ;  J H Park  ;  Y W Song  ;  S T Kim  ;  C Y Kim  ;  J K Park  ;  K S Kwon 
Citation
 JOURNAL OF KOREAN MEDICAL SCIENCE, Vol.16(5) : 615-618, 2001 
Journal Title
JOURNAL OF KOREAN MEDICAL SCIENCE
ISSN
 1011-8934 
Issue Date
2001
MeSH
Adolescent ; Adult ; Aged ; Behcet Syndrome/complications ; Behcet Syndrome/epidemiology* ; Child ; Child, Preschool ; Female ; Humans ; Infant ; Korea/epidemiology ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Prevalence ; Retrospective Studies ; Sex Distribution
Keywords
Behcet’s Disease ; Multicenter Studies, Korea
Abstract
The prevalence of Behcet's disease is the highest in the East Asian and the Mediterranean countries. Behcet's disease is also distributed in the Asian countries, but the nationwide survey has not been performed in Korea yet. The Korean Study Group for Behcet's Disease, founded in 1999, conducted a multicenter, retrospective survey on epidemiologic and clinical features of the patients with Behcet's disease from 20 hospitals around the nation from 1997 to 1999. Of 3,497 patients, 1,527 were classified into complete or incomplete type of Behcet's disease according to the revised Shimizu's classification. The sex ratio was 1:1.75 with the female predominance. Geographical distribution showed the highest frequency in Seoul (38.5%). Clinically, 98.8% had oral ulcers, 83.2% had genital ulcers, 84.3% had skin lesions and 50.9% had ocular lesions. As for the minor clinical manifestations, articular symptoms were the most frequent. The pathergy test showed positive in 15.4% of patients and revealed a higher positive rate in males (20.2%) than in females (12.7%). In conclusion, we performed the first multicenter study on Behcet's disease in Korea and revealed the female predominance, higher frequency of ocular lesions, and lower positivity of pathergy test in the patients.
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DOI
10.3346/jkms.2001.16.5.615
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1. College of Medicine (의과대학) > Dept. of Dermatology (피부과학교실) > 1. Journal Papers
Yonsei Authors
Bang, Dong Sik(방동식)
Lee, Ju Hee(이주희) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1739-5956
URI
https://ir.ymlib.yonsei.ac.kr/handle/22282913/142435
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