Incidence and risk factors for clinically diagnosed knee, hip and hand osteoarthritis: influences of age, gender and osteoarthritis affecting other joints.
OBJECTIVES: Data on the incidence of symptomatic osteoarthritis (OA) are scarce. We estimated incidence of clinical hip, knee and hand OA, and studied the effect of prevalent OA on joint-specific incident OA. METHODS: SIDIAP contains primary care records for>5 million people from Catalonia (S...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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BMJ Publishing Group
2014
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