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Abstract Number: 2535

Childhood Physical Fitness Predicts Adulthood Knee Cartilage Volume and Bone Area: A 25-Year Cohort Study

Benny Samuel Eathakkattu Antony1, Graeme Jones1, Alison Venn2, Leigh Blizzard3, Flavia Cicuttini4, Lyn March5, Terry Dwyer6 and Changhai Ding7, 1Musculoskeletal, Menzies Research Institute Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, 2Epidemiology, Menzies Research Institute Tasmania, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 3Biostatistics, Hobart, Australia, 4Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Central and Eastern Clinical School, Melbourne, Australia, 5University of Sydney, Institute of Bone and Joint Research, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards - Sydney, Australia, 6Director, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia, 7Musculoskeletal and Epidemilogy, Menzies research institute & Monash University, Hobart, Australia

Meeting: 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

Keywords: Knee and cartilage

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Session Title: Osteoarthritis - Clinical Aspects I: Weight, Activity, and Metabolic Effects on Osteoarthritis

Session Type: Abstract Submissions (ACR)

Background/Purpose: Physical activity interventions are often advised for management of osteoarthritis patients, despite contradictory findings regarding its effect on knee structure. In particular, there is little evidence relating childhood physical performance measures to adult joint structure. The aim of this cohort study was to determine the associations between childhood physical performance measures and knee cartilage volume and tibial bone area in adults 25 years later.

Methods: Subjects broadly representative of the Australian population (n=298, aged 31-41 years, female 48.7%) were selected from the Childhood Determinants of Adult Health study. They underwent T1-weighted fat- supressed magnetic resonance imaging of their dominant knee and cartilage volume and tibial bone area were measured. Childhood measures including physical work capacity at 170 beats per minute (PWC170), leg and hand muscle strength, sit-ups, long-run, and short-run were measured by standard protocols 25 years prior.

Results: There were consistent and significant associations of all childhood measures including PWC170 (β: 0.48 cm2 per 100 mW, 95% CI: 0.22, 0.73), hand muscle strength (β: 1.49 cm2 per 100g, 95% CI: 0.79, 2.19), leg muscle strength (β: 0.29 cm2 per 100g, 95% CI: 0.09, 0.50), short-run (β: -0.71 cm2 per second, 95% CI: -1.21, -0.21) and sit-ups (β: 0.28 cm2 per count/10, 95% CI: 0.13, 0.43) with adult tibial bone area in multivariable linear regression, after adjustment for sex, childhood age, duration of follow-up and childhood and adulthood measures (body mass index and knee injury). In addition, these associations were independent of the corresponding adulthood fitness measures and tibial cartilage volume.

Similarly, there was a significant positive association between childhood PWC170 and adult medial tibial cartilage volume (β: 0.1 mm3 per 100 mW, 95% CI: 0.03, 0.17) after adjustment for covariates including adult PWC170. The magnitude of the association decreased by 33% but remained significant after further adjustment for tibial bone area. Other childhood measures such as hand muscle strength (β: 0.21 mm3 per 100g, 95% CI: 0.04, 0.37) and sit-ups (β: 0.04 mm3 per count/10, 95% CI: 0.01, 0.08) were significantly associated with medial tibial cartilage volume, but these became non-significant after further adjustment for medial tibial bone area.

Conclusion: A number of childhood physical performance measures are significantly associated with knee bone area and cartilage volume in adulthood. The associations with cartilage volume appear to be mediated by tibial bone area. This suggests physical activity in childhood can independently influence adult knee joint health possibly through adaptive mechanisms during growth.


Disclosure:

B. S. Eathakkattu Antony,
None;

G. Jones,
None;

A. Venn,
None;

L. Blizzard,
None;

F. Cicuttini,
None;

L. March,
None;

T. Dwyer,
None;

C. Ding,
None.

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