In this article, the authors posit that, because osteoarthritis (OA) involves all of the tissues of
the synovial joint, the emphasis on the loss of cartilage, in particular, is misguided. In …

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a progressive disease of the joints characterized by degradation of
articular cartilage. Although disease initiation may be multi‐factorial, the cartilage …

Objective Preventive strategies against knee osteoarthritis (OA) require a knowledge of risk
factors that influence the initiation of the disorder and its subsequent progression. This …

Osteoarthritis, the clinical syndrome of joint pain and dysfunction caused by joint
degeneration, affects more people than any other joint disease. There are no consistently …

Five hundred subjects with symptomatic limb joint osteoarthritis, who had been referred to a
rheumatologist, were enrolled into a continuing study. They comprised 342 women (mean …

Several indices have recently been constructed by rheumatologists for the assessment of
clinical status in osteoarthritis of the extremities. These include the algofunctional indices for …

This volume raises central theoretical issues regarding behavioural reconstruction in human
osteological research. Because behavioural reconstructions have become increasingly …

OBJECTIVES--To test the hypothesis that bone scintigraphy will predict the outcome of
osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee joint. METHODS--Ninety four patients (65 women, 29 men; …

OBJECTIVES--The natural history of knee osteoarthritis (OA) is poorly understood. The
principal aim was to assess the rate of contralateral knee OA in middle aged women in the …

The natural history and prognostic factors of cartilage loss in osteoarthritis of the knee were
studied in subjects from a general population survey on rheumatic diseases in 1975-8 …