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BOF 117 Epidemiology of Ankylosing spondylitis, all are true,
except: 1-HLA is positive up to 90% of affected patients
2-its peak onset is between 6th and7th decades 3-male to female ration is 3:1 4-the overall incidence is 0.5% but may be much higher
in Pima and Haida Indians 5-there is an association with faecal Klebsiella
aerogenes carriage and chronic non infective prostatitis