a cohort study examined the incidence of knee and hip osteoarthritis in relation to different measures of body mass (1)
all measures of overweight were associated with the incidence of knee osteoarthritis, with the strongest relative risk gradient observed for BMI
incidence of hip osteoarthritis showed smaller but significant differences between normal weight and obesity
authors concluded that the study results support a major link between overweight and biomechanics in increasing the risk of knee and hip osteoarthritis in men and women
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