Abstracts tagged "longitudinal studies and osteoarthritis"

Abstract Number: 2312 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
Patient Preferences for Total Knee Replacement Surgery: Two Year Follow-up
Ernest Vina¹, Di Ran², Erin Ashbeck², Said Ibrahim³, Michael J. Hannon⁴, Jin Zhou⁵ and C. Kent Kwoh¹, ¹Rheumatology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, ²Arthritis Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, ³Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁵Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Background/Purpose: Patients’ preferences for total knee replacement (TKR) may determine actual receipt of TKR and may also change over time. Yet, no study has longitudinally…
Abstract Number: 212 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
Relation of Shoe Stability to Risk of Knee Cartilage Damage: The Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study
K. Douglas Gross^1,2, Howard J. Hillstrom³, Jingbo Niu⁴, Michael C. Nevitt⁵, James C. Torner⁶, Cora E. Lewis⁷ and David T. Felson², ¹Physical Therapy, MGH Institute of Health Professions, Boston, MA, ²Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ³Rehabilitation, Hospital Special Surgery (HSS), New York, NY, ⁴Clinical Epidemiology Research and Training Unit, Boston University, Boston, MA, ⁵Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UCSF (University of California, San Francisco), San Francisco, CA, ⁶Epidemiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa City, IA, ⁷Preventive Medicine, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: Clinical guidelines recommend that “every patient with knee osteoarthritis should receive advice concerning appropriate footwear”, yet the recommended content of this advice is not…