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| The prevalence of osteoporosis in patients with severe hip and knee osteoarthritis awaiting joint arthroplasty | | Author(s) | Elizabeth A Lingard, Sheryl Y Mitchell, Roger M Francis |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 39, no 2, March 2010 |
| Pages | pp 234-238 |
| Source | http://www.ageing.oxfordjournals.org http://www.bgs.org.uk doi:10.1093/ageing/afp222 |
| Keywords | Arthritis ; Osteoporosis ; Orthopaedics ; Cross sectional surveys ; Newcastle upon Tyne. |
| Annotation | The presence of osteoporosis in patients with hip and knee osteoarthritis (OA) has important implications for understanding disease progression and providing optimal surgical and medical management. A cross-sectional observational study was conducted in Newcastle-upon-Tyne with patients with osteoarthritis aged 65-80 awaiting total knee hip arthroplasty. The cohort consisted of 199 patients (mean age 72, SD 4) and 113 (57%) were women. The overall rate of osteoporosis at any site was 23% (46/100) and a further 43% (85/199) of patients would have been classified as osteoporotic according to World Health Organization (WHO) criteria. Osteoporosis was more commonly detected in the forearm (14%) than the lumbar spine (8.5%) and proximal femur of the index side (8.2%). In summary, a significant proportion of patients with end-stage OA have osteoporosis, but the diagnosis may be missed unless bone mineral density ( BMD) measurements are performed at sites distant from joints affected by OA. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100407220 A |
| Classmark | CLA: CLO: LKB: 3KB: 86A |
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