Squatting, sitting on the floor, or cycling: Are life-long daily activities risk factors for clinical knee osteoarthritis? Stage III results of a community-based study

Arthritis Care and Research

Volumn 61, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1337-1342

  Dahaghin, S ^a,b   Tehrani Banihashemi, S A ^a   Faezi, S T ^a   Jamshidi, A R ^a   Davatchi, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY POSITION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLIMBING; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PATHOGENESIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; SITTING; STANDING; WALKING;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BICYCLING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FLOORS AND FLOORCOVERINGS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; ODDS RATIO; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; POSTURE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RISK FACTORS; SPORTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349780612     PISSN: 21514658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.24737     Document Type: Article

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