Familial aggregation of osteoarthritis: Data from the Baltimore longitudinal study on aging

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1227-1232

  Hirsch, Rosemarie ^a,b   Lethbridge Cejku, Margaret ^c   Hanson, Robert ^d   Scott Jr , William W ^e   Reichle, Ralph ^e   Plato, Chris C ^f   Tobin, Jordan D ^f   Hochberg, Marc C ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CARPOMETACARPAL JOINT; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HAND RADIOGRAPHY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; KNEE RADIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; POLYARTHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; BALTIMORE; BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; KNEE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OSTEOARTHRITIS;

EID: 0031810007     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1529-0131(199807)41:7<1227::AID-ART13>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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