Analytic study of patients with adhesive capsulitis and its association

To examine the association between adhesive capsulitis and other various disorders, an analytic study of (96) patients with adhesive capsulitis and (96) patients without adhesive capsulitis was conducted. The data were analyzed and showed the following results. Among adhesive capsulitis cases the female: male ratio was 2 : 1. The peak age of onset was (50-59) years in both sexes. All patients (cases and controls) were screened for a number of possibly associated disorders. Notable correlations have been shown between shoulder capsulitis and other disorders which can be ranked as follows: diabetes mellitus (27%) ischaemic heart disease (12.5%), cervical spondylosis (9.4%), hypertension (8.3%), cerebro vascular accident (6.2%), trauma (4.2%) and rheumatoid arthritis (2.1%). In comparison with control group, significant correlations were encountered between shoulder capsulitis and diabetes (p < 0.0001) and between adhesive capsulitis and other up mentioned disorders (p < 0.0001). Four patients among cases and two among control were discovered to be diabetic. Other four patients within cases and four within control were discovered to have hypercholesterolemia. Thus adhesive capsulitis may be the presenting complaint of these disorders. An apparent female predominance was marked in all age groups of adhesive capsulitis cases, a fact that can be explained by a higher percent of diabetes, ischaemic heart disease and hypertension among females in the studied sample.