Knitting the Threads of Silk through Time: Behçet’s Disease—Past, Present, and Future

Table 1

The worldwide prevalence of BD.

Country/area	Study (year)	Patients ()	Population/ participants	Prevalence; (per 100,000)
Northern Europe
UK (Yorkshire)	Chamberlain (1977) [5]	32	5,000,000	0.64
Scotland	Jankowski et al. (1992) [6]	15	5,500,000	0.3
Ireland (Dublin)	Kilmartin et al. (1997) [7]	24	1,058,264	2.27
Sweden (Skane)	Mohammad et al. (2013) [8]	40	809,317	4.94
Europe
Germany	Papoutsis et al. (2006) [9]	165	3,391,344	4.87
France (Paris)	Mahr et al. (2008) [10]	79	1,094,412	7.1
Italy (Rome)	Valesini et al. (1991) [11]	155	NA	19
Greece	Kaklamani et al. (2000) [12]	90	NA	11
Mediterranean
Turkey
Tokat	Baş et al. (2016) [13]	14	2,325	602
Kayseri	Çölgeçen et al. (2015) [14]	9	5,218	170
Havsa	Cakir et al. (2004) [15]	1	4,861	20
Istanbul	Azizlerli et al. (2003) [16]	101	23,986	420
Ankara	Idil et al. (2002) [17]	16	17,256	110
Ordu	Yurdakul et al. (1988) [18]	19	5,121	370
Istanbul	Demirhindi et al. (1981) [19]	4	4,940	80
Mediterranean
Iran	Davatchi et al. (2007) [20]	7	10,291	68
Egypt	Assaad-Khalil et al. (1997) [21]	274	NA	16
Jordan	Madanat et al. (2000) [22]	200	NA	27
Others
US (Olmsted County)	Calamia et al. (2009) [23]	13	144,248	5.2
Japan	Nakae et al. (1993) [24]	3316	NA	13.5
Korea	Bang et al. (2011) [25]	15,554	NA	30.2
China	Zhang et al. (2006) [26]	1996	NA	14