Arthritis is the leading cause of disability
among adults in this country, limiting the
activities of 16 million people, according to
the Centers for Disease Control.
There are
more than 100 forms of this disease, but the
most common is...
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Arthritis is the leading cause of disability
among adults in this country, limiting the
activities of 16 million people, according to
the Centers for Disease Control.
There are
more than 100 forms of this disease, but the
most common is osteoarthritis, which causes
the breakdown and eventual loss of cartilage
of the joints.
To determine how this disability occurs in
older women and its relationship to excess
weight, researchers at the U.
S.
National
Institute on Aging and the Johns Hopkins
Medical Institutions in Baltimore used data
from the Women’s Health and Aging Study II.
Their analysis included 199 women with
knee or hip osteoarthritis who initially had
no problems in mobility and 140 women
who showed no signs of osteoarthritis.
Participants were age 70 to 79.
Over a period of six years, scientists studied
both groups to see if the women with
osteoarthritis were more prone to disability
than those who did not have the disease and
whether the ost
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