Epidemiology of osteoarthritis of the knee in a rural Japanese population

Knee

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 183-188

  Shiozaki, Hiroyuki ^a   Koga, Yoshio ^b   Omori, Go ^a   Yamamoto, Gen ^a   Takahashi, Hideaki E ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Niigata Kobari Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Knee; Obesity; Osteoarthritis; Varus deformity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; VARUS DEFORMITY;

EID: 0032872763     PISSN: 09680160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0968-0160(99)00011-3     Document Type: Article

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