How We Fail to Detect This Spine Disease In Black Patients
Channel: Ben Haseen, MD
Date: 2023-03-09

Ankylosing Spondylitis is a rare genetic autoimmune spine disease that causes progressive pain without a cure. For some reason Black patients in the US tend to have more severe symptoms that other patients. In this video, I talk about the research that points how one specific genetic test is often used to exclude Black patients even though they have the disease. 


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Research Studies I mention in this video: 

https://www.jrheum.org/content/47/6/835

The most commonly used criteria for the classification of ankylosing spondylitis were developed in 1966 and modified in 1984. They are:
-Low back pain of at least three months duration with inflammatory characteristics (improved by exercise, not relieved by rest)
-Limitation of lumbar spine motion in sagittal and frontal planes
-Decreased chest expansion (relative to normal values for age and sex)
-Bilateral sacroiliitis grade 2 or higher
-Unilateral sacroiliitis grade 3 or higher.


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