An experimental study on knee osteoarthritis patients

Abstract

The prevalence of knee osteoarthritis is much lower in Asians or in black people. Few population-based studies regarding the incidence of knee osteoarthritis were found, with the incidence of knee osteoarthritis being higher in different age group. However, strict comparisons among these studies are limited, because the definition of the incidence of knee osteoarthritis is not the same for each study. A few risk factors for knee osteoarthritis were established, such as female gender and obesity. Also several cross sectional studies have found that the presence of a previous knee injury is significantly associated with the incidence of knee osteoarthritis. One of the limitations in previous studies is the definition of knee osteoarthritis. The most popular grading system for knee osteoarthritis is Kellgren–Lawrence classification. The data for the study was undertaken to determine osteoarthritis among the population in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Frequencies and percentages were calculated to find the prevalence of osteoarthritis. For the purpose of the study a total of 207 female subjects aged (30-80) were engaged. The present study reports that the knee osteoarthritis among the sedentary women of the subjects were found to have a significant level (p