Osteoarthritis and Bone Disorders News

Muscle strength and physical performance measures may improve fracture risk prediction for older men and should be incorporated into fracture prediction models, according to study findings.

The reduced risks for osteoporotic and hip fractures with bisphosphonate therapy outweigh increased risk for atypical femur fractures for older women, according to study finding published in Bone.

In patients with or at risk for knee osteoarthritis, older age is strongly associated a three-to-fivefold increase in prevalent radiographic hand OA, compared with younger ages, with significant age, sex and race interactions, according to data.

A personalized referral system dubbed Support and Treatment After Replacement, or STAR, is cost effective and improves chronic pain after total knee replacement over a 1-year period, according to data published in The Lancet Rheumatology.

High levels of body fat are associated with a lower bone mineral density, with the association more pronounced in men compared with women, according to study data published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

Although initially more expensive, a physical therapy course for knee osteoarthritis is more cost-effective after 1 year than a course of glucocorticoid injections, according to data published in JAMA Network Open.

TAMPA, Fla. — External and internal validation of six trained machine learning models showed they performed acceptably in predicting depression in patients with knee osteoarthritis, according to a presenter.

Adding duloxetine to usual care fails to result in any “clinically relevant effect” in patients with chronic hip or knee osteoarthritis pain, compared with usual care alone, according to data published in Arthritis & Rheumatology.

The burden of hip osteoarthritis has increased globally in the past 30 years, with incidence and disability-adjusted life years rising “in nearly all countries,” according to data published in Arthritis Research & Therapy.

Just 0.7% of fully vaccinated patients with inflammatory rheumatic and musculoskeletal disease experience a breakthrough COVID-19 infection, while only 4.4% demonstrate disease flare reactions, according to data.