Does knee malalignment predispose to osteoarthritis? Comment on the articles by Brouwer et al and Hunter et al and the editorial by Sharma

✍ Scribed by Paul Monach

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 36 KB
• Volume: 56
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0004-3591
• DOI: 10.1002/art.23031

✦ Synopsis

Does knee malalignment predispose to osteoarthritis? Comment on the articles by Brouwer et al and Hunter et al and the editorial by Sharma

To the Editor:

The Osteoarthritis section of the April 2007 issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism included reports of studies by Brouwer et al (1) and Hunter et al (2), concerning knee malalignment and the risk of subsequent development of osteoarthritis, that appear to be contradictory. The accompanying editorial by Sharma (3) did not resolve the contradiction.

Since these studies addressed an important topic on which there is little or no previous literature, used different methodologies, and led to different conclusions, it would be helpful if Dr. Sharma or the authors of the studies could add brief commentary to assist those readers who are not researchers in this field.