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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Main Authors: Prieto-Alhambra, D, Judge, A, Javaid, M, Cooper, C, Diez-Perez, A, Arden, N
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2014

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