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LOGO EPIDEMIOLOGY The reported prevalence of DCTDs is variable, depending on the study methodology, nature of referral bias, and patient ethnicity. 4 It is generally accepted that Sj?gren’s syndrome has the highest prevalence (500 to 3600 per 100,000) and that SLE is much less prevalent (about 15 to 50 per 100,000). Scleroderma, PM, and DM are relatively rare DCTDs, with prevalences less than 10 per 100,000. There is increasing realization that overlap syndromes of scleroderma and myositis are more common than the “pure” forms of the disease. 5,6 The only epidemiology studies of overlap syndro