Risk factors for the long-term incidence and progression of knee osteoarthritis in older adults: role of nonsurgical injury.

ABSTRACT:

Background

For one of the most chronic medical conditions, osteoarthritis, uncertainties remain on the impact of injury chronology, the role of repeat injury on the incidence/progression of this disease and the need for knee arthroplasty.

Objectives

To explore, in an older adult population, how nonsurgical knee injuries relate to osteoarthritis incidence/progression and the weight of independent risk factors for arthroplasty.

Design

A cohort study design evaluates the long-term impact of injuries on knee osteoarthritis outcomes.

Methods

Knees with no prior injury (n = 6358) and with at least one injury (n = 819) ⩽20 years before study inclusion were from the Osteoarthritis Initiative cohort. Sociodemographic, clinical and structural [X-ray, magnet

SUBMITTER: Pelletier JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10184209 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature