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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1990-10-24
pubmed:abstractText
The association of body fat distribution with single and combined site osteoarthritis was investigated using data from the US Health Examination Survey I, 1960-1962 (HES I) and the first National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey I, 1971-1975 (NHANES I). The study included 1,636 adults aged 35-79 years from HES I with hands and feet radiographs and four anthropometric fat distribution measures--subscapular and triceps skinfolds, waist girth, and seat breadth--and 3,885 adults aged 45-74 from NHANES I with knee radiographs and subscapular and triceps skinfold measures. Sex-specific data, adjusted for age, race, and body mass index, were analyzed using polychotomous logistic regression. There was a positive association of body mass index with knee osteoarthritis and with combined hands and feet osteoarthritis. A peripheral body girth pattern was associated with combined site osteoarthritis of the hands and feet; however, there was no consistent pattern of association of body fat distribution with knee osteoarthritis nor with osteoarthritis of the hands or feet only. These findings suggest that the central body fat pattern observed in previous studies to be associated with cardiovascular and gallbladder disease, and with diabetes, is not associated with osteoarthritis of the hands, feet, or knees.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0002-9262
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
132
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
701-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1990
pubmed:articleTitle
Body fat distribution and osteoarthritis.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0560.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't