Abstracts tagged "Vitamin D and osteoarthritis"

Abstract Number: 1021 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2016
Maintaining Sufficient Serum Vitamin D Levels over 2 Years Is Associated with Reduced Knee Structural and Symptomatic Changes in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis
Shuang Zheng¹, Xingzhong Jin¹, Flavia M Cicuttini², Xia Wang¹, Zhaohua Zhu¹, Anita E Wluka³, Weiyu Han¹, Tania Winzenberg¹, Leigh Blizzard¹, Graeme Jones⁴ and Changhai Ding⁴, ¹Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, ²Monash University, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Melbourne, Australia, ³Australia, Armadale, Australia, ⁴Musculoskeletal Unit, Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
Background/Purpose: To examine whether those maintaining sufficient serum vitamin D levels have reduced knee structural changes and symptomatic improvement compared with those not maintaining sufficient…