Medication use and comorbidities in an increasingly younger osteoarthritis population: an 18-year retrospective open-cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

As understanding of the pathogenesis and treatment strategies for osteoarthritis (OA) evolves, it is important to understand how patient factors are also changing. Our goal was to examine demographics and known risk factors of patients with OA over time.

Design

Open-cohort retrospective study using electronic health records.

Setting

Large US integrated health system with 7 hospitals, 2.6 million outpatient clinic visits and 97 300 hospital admissions annually in a mostly rural geographic region.

Participants

Adult patients with at least two encounters and a diagnosis of OA or OA-relevant surgery between 2001 and 2018. Because of geographic region, over 96% of participants were white/Caucasian.

Interventions

None.

Primary and secondary outco

SUBMITTER: Graham J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10230875 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature