An Estimation for the Association between the C–RP Tests and RF Tests of Rheumatoid Condition Patients with their Demographic Data. In Maysan Province, Iraq

Abstract

The present study aims to achieve the following objectives to assessment rheumatic arthritis patients in Maysan Governorate, an influence of the gender and age on the rheumatic arthritis and an effectiveness of the geographical areas (urban,rural) on the incidence of rheumatic. The data were collected between the (January to August 2016)Al-Sadder Teaching hospital in Maysan province and the total number of serum samples were (314).The study’s data were analyzed through the use of Statistical processing, with program SPSS 20.0, Sigma Stat 2.03, Sigma Plot 2000, Med Calc and Excel 2010 and the blood samples were collected from patients aged (13–61years) (for both genders) and also from different areas in Maysan governorate, all blood samples were collected from people suspected having arthritis due to they had symptoms of diseases with pain,the rheumatic factor and C–reactive protein (CRP)were evaluated by latex agglutination test. The data analysis revealed that the majority of the patients about 27.4% in the study samples at age group (31-40 year. The chi-squared distribution is applied in hypothesis testing and to a minimum range for confidence intervals for population difference when the underlying distribution is normal.