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Arthritis is America's #1 leading cause of disability!

Affects 43 million Americans.

687,000 Kentuckians are affected with arthritis

By the year 2020, 59.6 million Americans will have arthritis.

Two-thirds of those effected are women.

Arthritis is second only to heart disease as a leading cause of chronic illness.

$50,000 is lost over a lifetime by a person with arthritis.

Arthritis costs $143 billion annually to our society.

427 million work days each year are lost to arthritis.

Older people ARE NOT the only people who get arthritis.  KIDS GET ARTHRITIS TOO!!!

Over a quarter million children in the U.S. have some form of arthritis!!!

5,000 children in Kentucky are effected by arthritis.

Arthritis affects more children than cerebral palsy or juvenile diabetes.

Nearly 3 of every 1000 children have arthritis.