Functions and obesity Archives - ACR Meeting Abstracts

Abstract Number: 902 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2013
The Effect Of Obesity On Physical Function: The Osteoarthritis Initiative Study
Jingbo Niu¹, Daniel K. White², David T. Felson³, Michael C. Nevitt⁴ and Yuqing Zhang³, ¹Clinical Epidemiology Research and Training Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ²Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ³Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ⁴Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UCSF (University of California, San Francisco), San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Previous studies assessing relationship between obesity and physical function used linear regression model that assumes effects of obesity on physical function were the same…

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