Lower prevalence of hand osteoarthritis among Chinese subjects in Beijing compared with white subjects in the United States: The Beijing osteoarthritis study

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1034-1040

  Zhang, Yuqing ^a,e   Xu, Ling ^b   Nevitt, Michael C ^c   Niu, Jingbo ^a   Goggins, Joyce P ^a   Aliabadi, Piran ^d   Yu, Wei ^b   Lui, Li Yung ^c   Felson, David T ^a  

^a BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAND DISEASE; HAND OSTEOARTHRITIS; HAND RADIOGRAPHY; HIP OSTEOARTHRITIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; SYMPTOM; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHINA; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FINGER JOINT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PREVALENCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037388220     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.10928     Document Type: Article

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