Arthritis & Rheumatism. 2007;56(11):3601-3609. The most common degenerative joint disease, osteoarthritis (OA) is marked by the breakdown of articular cartilage, which is the type of cartilage ...

Background: In patients with osteoarthritis, a detailed assessment of degenerative cartilage disease is important to recommend adequate treatment. Using a representative sample of patients ...

Weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy may provide strong relief from severe osteoarthritis knee pain, new research finds.

A recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine highlights that the weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, ...

Doctors diagnose osteoarthritis by considering a patient's medical history, physical examination, and images of the affected joints. X-rays create the images used to detect osteoarthritis. While ...

You can also be diagnosed with a stage called pre-osteoarthritis. OA is a progressive joint disease caused by cartilage breakdown. It is the most common form of arthritis. OA can affect any joint in ...

Sixty-nine-year-old Mary Anne Laporte was diagnosed with knee arthritis 15 years ago. For years, she kept the pain under control with steroid injections and physical therapy, but when she began ...

Knee injuries are common in athletes, accounting for 41% of all athletic injuries. But knee injuries aren't limited to ...

Osteoarthritis is considered a risk factor for severe cardiovascular disease like ischemic heart disease and myocardial infarction. Studying ~60 000 twins over a 20-year period and applying ...

Knee osteoarthritis, also known as degenerative joint disease of the ... Bob Carter, deputy director of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, told The New ...

In the NHANES 2017–2018 cycle, participants were also categorized as self-reported OA if they answered “Osteoarthritis or degenerative arthritis.”Previous scholars have shown that self-reported OA has ...

And it's no wonder that so many of us are affected: There are over 100 types of arthritis, with osteoarthritis, or degenerative arthritis — a non-inflammatory form — topping the list as the ...