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Obesity and osteoarthritis of the hands in women
Obesity and osteoarthritis of the hands in women
- Source :
- Osteoarthritis and cartilage. 1(2)
- Publication Year :
- 1993
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Abstract
- The association of obesity and body fat distribution with hand osteoarthritis was studied in 317 Caucasian female subjects aged 40 years and above in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. Bilateral hand radiographs taken between 1978 and 1991 were read by one investigator for grade of osteoarthritis using Kellgren-Lawrence scales. Possible risk factors, assessed at same visit as the first radiograph during this interval, included age and measures of obesity, per cent body fat, and fat distribution. Results of bivariate analyses showed that increasing grade of hand osteoarthritis was associated with increasing age, greater mean levels of waist-hip ratio and per cent body fat; there was no association with body mass index. After adjustment for age, however, none of these independent variables remained significantly associated with grade of hand osteoarthritis. These data fail to support hypotheses that measures of obesity are associated with hand osteoarthritis in women independent of their known age-related changes.
- Subjects :
- Adult
medicine.medical_specialty
Longitudinal study
Aging
Cross-sectional study
Biomedical Engineering
Osteoarthritis
Cohort Studies
Rheumatology
Internal medicine
Epidemiology
medicine
Humans
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Longitudinal Studies
Obesity
Prospective Studies
Prospective cohort study
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
business.industry
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Hand
Cross-Sectional Studies
Adipose Tissue
Physical therapy
Body Composition
Female
business
Body mass index
Cohort study
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10634584
- Volume :
- 1
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Osteoarthritis and cartilage
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9f782f729b393df62702eea37bbb32ef