Mosab Ahmed Abker Adam, Alaa Othman Awadalkareim Gasmalla and Wagas Abbas Mohamed Ahmed Mansour
Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most common form
of inflammatory arthritis in adults. This study reveals the frequency
distribution of bone fractures and the most frequent fracture sites in RA
patients in Police teaching hospital, Sudan.
Materials and method: A cross-sectional study was conducted in Khartoum,
Sudan from September 2018 to September 2019. The questionnaire is in
form of Multiple choice questions, Composed of Demographic information
Regards their (age, sex, Occupation, and social habit), Information about
the RA disease (duration, Risk factor, and investigation). Information
concerning Bone fracture (if there is any fracture, site, how it detected).
Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS, Version 22.0. (IBM, USA).
Results: From patients diagnosed with RA, 25% had bone fractures out
of 72 RA patients. A 72 rheumatic patients were involved in this crosssectional
study, 11 of them (15.3%) were males and 61 (84.7%) were
females. the mean of age was 50.6 years (48 years for male, 51years for
female). The duration of rheumatoid in the majority of patients (36.1%)
was falling between 2-5 years of diagnosis. The most common site of
fracture is hip (36.9%) following by carpal bones (26.3%), then spinal
vertebrae (10.5%).
Conclusion: 25% of RA patients experienced bone fractures because of
falling the most common site of bone fractures in RA patients is hip bone.
Physicians should know the association between RA, bone fractures,
and corticosteroid use to decrease bone fracture incidence. Also,
investigations such as bone loss measurement should be done routinely
to any RA patient.
