Abstracts tagged "osteoarthritis and vitamins"

Abstract Number: 327 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
The Relation of Plasma Vitamin K Status to Meniscal Pathology in Knee Osteoarthritis: The Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study
Jia Liu¹, Martin Englund², Sarah Booth³, David T. Felson⁴, Michael C. Nevitt⁵, Cora E. Lewis⁶, James Torner⁷, Anyu Hu⁸ and Tuhina Neogi⁴, ¹Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, ²Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Orthopedics, Dept of Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, ³HRNCA, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, ⁴Clinical Epidemiology Research and Training Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ⁵Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ⁶Preventive Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁷University of Iowa, UIowa, Iowa City, IA, ⁸Clinical Epidemiology Research Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Vitamin K is an essential cofactor in bone and cartilage mineralization. Low serum vitamin K has been associated with increased prevalence of hand…