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How often does PMR progress to GCA?

Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Nov 2 9:39am | Replies (128)

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I have read on various sites that up to 20% of people with PMR will get GCA.

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@jixster @charlotte61 here is a reference to that 20%

: Giant cell arteritis: reviewing the advancing diagnostics and
management Eye; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41433-023-02433-y

CLINICAL PRESENTATION
GCA has heterogeneous clinical features due to the overlapping spectrum of the known clinical phenotypes: cranial GCA (C-GCA), large vessel GCA (LV-GCA), and polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) (Fig. 2) [42]. The majority of people with cranial GCA will have symptoms of new onset headache, jaw claudication and cutaneous allodynia [8, 43, 44]. Nearly half of people with GCA have symptoms of PMR (Fig. 2) while up to one-fifth of people with PMR will be diagnosed with GCA [5, 42].