Abstracts tagged "osteoarthritis and young adults"

Abstract Number: 912 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2018
Association of Adiposity Measures in Childhood and Adulthood with Knee Cartilage Thickness, Volume and Bone Area in Young Adults
Tao Meng¹, Alison Venn¹, Felix Eckstein^2,3, Wolfgang Wirth^2,3, Flavia Cicuttini⁴, Lyn March⁵, Terence Dwyer^1,6, Marita Cross⁵, Laura Laslett¹, Graeme Jones¹, Changhai Ding^1,7 and Benny Samuel Eathakkattu Antony¹, ¹Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, ²Chondrometrics GmbH, Ainring, Germany, ³Institute of Anatomy, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria, ⁴Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, ⁵Institute of Bone and Joint Research, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, ⁶The George Institute for Global Health, Nuffield Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, ⁷Clinical Research Centre, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
Background/Purpose: Adiposity is associated with increased risk of knee osteoarthritis; cartilage thickness, cartilage volume and subchondral bone area are established biomarkers in knee osteoarthritis. We…