Elderly women in rural areas of Beijing knee osteoarthritis epidemiology.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 10 Elderly women in rural areas of Beijing knee osteoarthritis epidemiology Of: Liuai Wu Qiu-Ping Wang Wei Sun Xiangwu [Abstract] Objective rural Fangshan District, Beijing osteoarthritis of the knee in older women the prevalence of the disease characteristics and the cause and prevention of osteoarthritis basis. Methods rural Fangshan District, around 11 villages good women over the age of 50 will be under the age composition of the age than the number of the order of a random sample of 356 people, and conducted a questionnaire survey, physical examination and X-ray. the result of older women in rural Fangshan District, Beijing Clinical overall prevalence rate of knee osteoarthritis 46.2%, radiology total prevalence rate was 97.9%, abnormal imaging in the clinical population prevalence of osteoarthritis 47%. Conclusion Age, weight, body mass index is Liangxiang Fangshan District, around the knee joint in older women risk factors for inflammation, menopause, smoking may be risk factors for knee osteoarthritis, this group of population, labor intensity, and milk with little to knee osteoarthritis. Fangshan District in the prevalence of elderly women with osteoarthritis higher, which should be sufficient attention. [Keywords:] in the prevalence rate of older women with osteoarthritis Osteoarthritis (osteoarthritis, OA) in older age groups is a degenerative disease, is a group with different etiology but similar biological, morphological and clinical features of disease. Which the incidence of knee relatively high. Most of knee OA were mainly seen in the elderly, part of the articular cartilage injury secondary to seriously affect the health of patients and quality of life, weight and even the need for surgical treatment. If the prevention of disease and in disease Early diagnosis and treatment, will greatly reduce the extent of the suffering of patients and reduce the social and medical expenses. Both at home and abr