Epidemiology of Osteoarthritis

By Yuqing Zhang, J. Jordan. Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 2010

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Synopsis Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common joint disorder in the United States. Symptomatic knee OA occurs in 10% men and 13% in women aged 60 years or older. The number of people affected with symptomatic OA is likely to increase due to the aging of the population and the obesity epidemic. OA has a multi-factorial etiology and can be considered the product of an interplay between systemic and local factors. Old age, female gender, overweight and obesity, knee injury, repetitive use of joints, bone density, muscle weakness, and joint laxity all play roles in the development of joint osteoarthritis, particularly in the weight-bearing joints. Modifying these factors may reduce the risk of osteoarthritis and prevent subsequent pain and disability.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Rheumatology, Surgery

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• Rates of Total Joint Replacement in the United States: Future Projections to 2020–2040 Using the National Inpatient Sample (2019, background): “We assumed a continuous increase in THA/TKA use owing to the increase in OA incidence related to the obesity epidemic 3 and a rapidly growing population of adults ≥ 65 years in the United States that will increase from 34.4 million in 2000 to more than 70 million in 2030 18 .”
• Global, regional prevalence, incidence and risk factors of knee osteoarthritis in population-based studies (2020, neutral): “The funnel plots showed visually asymmetrical distribution of published studies on prevalence and incidence of knee OA (Appendix 25 and 26).”