作者
James E Gaida, Maureen C Ashe, Shona L Bass, Jill L Cook
发表日期
2009/6/15
来源
Arthritis Care & Research: Official Journal of the American College of Rheumatology
卷号
61
期号
6
页码范围
840-849
出版商
Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
简介
Objective
Tendon injuries have been reported to occur more frequently in individuals with increased adiposity. Treatment also appears to have poorer outcomes among these individuals. Our objective was to examine the extent and consistency of associations between adiposity and tendinopathy.
Methods
A systematic review of observational studies was conducted. Eight electronic databases were searched (Allied and Complementary Medicine, Biological Abstracts, CINAHL, Current Contents, EMBase, Medline, SPORTDiscus, and Web of Science) and citation tracking was performed on included reports. Studies were included if they compared adiposity between subjects with and without tendon injury or examined adiposity as a predictor of conservative treatment success.
Results
Four longitudinal cohorts, 14 cross‐sectional studies, 8 case–control studies, and 2 interventional studies (28 in total) met the …
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