The incidence and natural history of knee osteoarthritis in the elderly, the framingham osteoarthritis study
โ Scribed by David T. Felson; Yuqing Zhang; Marian T. Hannan; Allan Naimark; Barbara N. Weissman; Piran Aliabadi; Daniel Levy
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 557 KB
- Volume
- 38
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0004-3591
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## Abstract ## Objective To examine the relationship of knee malalignment to the occurrence of knee osteoarthritis (OA) among subjects without radiographic OA at baseline to determine whether malalignment is a risk factor for incident disease or simply a marker of increasing disease severity. ##
To examine the possible inverse relationship between osteoporosis and osteoarthritis (OA) by evaluating the association between bone mineral density (BMD) and knee OA in the Framingham Study cohort. Methods. Of the 1,154 Framingham Study cohort subjects in whom BMD measurements were obtained at bie