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Arthritis affects a surprisingly large number of us, as you can see by the following numbers:

 Over 58 million adult Americans currently suffer from arthritis, or 1 in 4 of us. It is the leading cause of disability among adults in the U.S.

 Women are more likely than men to get arthritis, which currently affects one in four women compared to one in five men. They are also far more likely to develop rheumatoid arthritis than men and to experience worse pain.

 By 2040, it’s projected that that the number of U.S. adults with doctor-diagnosed arthritis will have increased by 49 percent to an estimated 78.4 million (nearly 26 percent of the population).

 In 2013, the total national cost of treating arthritis was $140 billion. It is the reason behind more than 100 million outpatient visits and 6.6 million hospitalizations annually.

 Osteoarthritis is by far the most common type of arthritis, affecting more than 30 million Americans, most of whom develop the disease after the age of 45.

 Gout is the second most prevalent form of arthritis in the U.S., affecting 8.3 million sufferers, followed by rheumatoid arthritis at 1.3 million. Sjögren’s afflicts 1-4 million and fibromyalgia afflicts 4 million, but not all of them will have arthritis.

 About 1.5 million American adults have rheumatoid arthritis (RA), which mostly strikes women, while gout tends to favor men.

 Some 1 in 1,000 U.S. children under the age of 17 have some form of joint disease, which translates to an astonishing 300,000! Of those, 50,000 have juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA).

 Arthritis most often strikes in the knees and the hips, most likely because both are weight-bearing joints and can easily be injured. To fight the pain and disability that can result, there are about 500,000 hip replacements and 750,000 knee replacements performed in the U.S. every year.