Predominant lifetime occupation and associations with painful and structural knee osteoarthritis: An international participant-level cohort collaboration.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

With adults working to older ages, occupation is an important, yet less modifiable domain of physical activity to consider in the risk of knee osteoarthritis (OA). This study aimed to investigate the association between predominant lifetime occupation and prevalent knee OA.

Design

Participant-level data were used from five international community-based cohorts: Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project, the Hertfordshire Cohort Study, the Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study, the Tasmanian Cohort Study and Framingham Osteoarthritis Study. Self-reported predominant occupation was categorized into sedentary, light, light manual and heavy manual levels. Cross-sectional associations between predominant lifetime occupation and knee OA outcomes including prevalence of radiograp

SUBMITTER: Parsons CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9718216 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature