The most frequent symptoms of joints damage among the residents of Yakutia

The frequency of clinical manifestations in patients with joint lesion among the indigenous people of Yakutia (n = 687) was studied. It is revealed that the lesion of the joints can begin both in the early childhood (2 years) and in old age (77 years); on average, joint lesion starts at 41-43 years. The most common symptoms of joint damage are pain in the joint and crepitus in the knee joints. Among women, there are more often observed: swelling of the wrist and knee joints, restriction of mobility of the wrist joints and bilateral crepitus at the knee joints; among men, one-sided crepitus at the knee joints. With age increasing, the duration of pain and the frequency of changes in the configuration of the joints at the time of inspection increase.