Osteoarthritis and Bone Disorders News

TORONTO — Hip shape parameters such as decreasing acetabular coverage were among factors that predicted total hip replacement in a cohort of individuals from Australia, according to findings presented here.

TORONTO — A monoclonal antibody directed against nerve growth factor, tanezumab, was associated with improvements in both WOMAC pain and function in a cohort of patients with knee and hip OA, according to findings presented here.

TORONTO — Asking patients about difficulty with activities like walking, shopping, or removing socks may aid general practitioners in making earlier diagnoses of hip osteoarthritis, according to findings presented here.

TORONTO — Jon Levine, MD, PhD, of the University of California, San Francisco, conducted a clinical- and cellular-level exploration of how pain can transition from the acute to the chronic phase.

The burden of musculoskeletal diseases increased significantly between 2000 and 2015, and they are now the second most common cause of years lived with disability in the world, according to data published in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.

TORONTO — Philip Conaghan, MD, professor of musculoskeletal medicine at the University of Leeds, England, said that while paradigms have changed and new therapies are emerging in rheumatoid arthritis, there has been little improvement in osteoarthritis.

TORONTO — A multimodal, non-pharmacologic intervention involving four strategies was associated with improved pain and functioning in a cohort of patients with hand OA, according to findings presented here.

TORONTO — Statin use was associated with a reduced risk of knee or hip replacement in individuals with rheumatoid arthritis but not osteoarthritis, according to findings of a large cohort study presented here.

TORONTO — Foot and ankle osteoarthritis have often gone overlooked as areas of clinical study and lacking clinical consensus on prevalence, according to Michelle Marshall, PhD, research fellow in Musculoskeletal Clinical Epidemiology & Imaging at Keele University in the UK.

TORONTO — Obesity at baseline was associated with development of patellofemoral osteoarthritis within 8 years, according to an analysis of the CHECK cohort presented here.