Abstracts tagged "insulin resistance and osteoarthritis"

Abstract Number: 1276 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
Hyperglycemia and Risk of Osteoarthritis
Mona Walimbe¹, Ann V. Schwartz², Irina Tolstykh², Charles E. McCulloch², David T. Felson³, Cora E. Lewis⁴, Neil A. Segal⁵, Michael C. Nevitt² and Nancy E. Lane⁶, ¹Medicine, UCSF (University of California, San Francisco), San Francisco, CA, ²Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UCSF (University of California, San Francisco), San Francisco, CA, ³Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ⁴Preventive Medicine, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁵Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ⁶Internal Medicine, Center for Musculoskeletal Health, UC Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA
Background/Purpose Osteoarthritis (OA) is reported to be more prevalent in individuals with diabetes mellitus (DM). Potential etiologies include advanced glycation endproducts, which reduce cartilage integrity,…