Association of Squatting With Increased Prevalence of Radiographic Tibiofemoral Knee Osteoarthritis: The Beijing Osteoarthritis Study

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1187-1192

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

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (China)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CAUCASIAN; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMUR; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; KNEE RADIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATELLA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RANDOMIZATION; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SQUATTING; TIBIA; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT BEARING;

AGED; CHINA; FEMALE; FEMUR; HUMANS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; POSTURE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; TIBIA;

EID: 1842783799     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.20127     Document Type: Article

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