Highlights
- •This study thoroughly examined lifestyle factors associated with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis.
- •The association between lifestyle-related factors and symptomatic knee osteoarthritis differs by sex.
- •Age and body mass index are strong risk factors for symptomatic knee osteoarthritis.
- •Higher consumption of green tea is associated with a lower incidence of knee osteoarthritis in men.
Abstract
Objectives
Modifiable risk factors for knee osteoarthritis (OA) have not been studied in detail.
This study aimed to determine lifestyle-related modifiable factors of symptomatic
knee osteoarthritis in an East Asian population.
Study design
This 5-year cohort study involved 11,091 individuals (age range 40–72 years) living
in the Murakami region of Niigata, Japan, who did not have a history of knee OA. At
baseline, information on sociodemographic characteristics, body size, lifestyle, and
living condition was obtained using a self-administered questionnaire.
Main outcome measures
Incident symptomatic knee OA observed at hospitals and orthopaedic clinics in the
five years to 2016. Clinical grades of knee OA were based on the Kellgren-Lawrence
scale. P for trend was assessed to examine linear associations between predictors
and the outcome in multiple logistic regression analysis.
Results
The mean age of participants was 58.1 (SD 9.3) years. The number of cases of grade
2 or more incident knee OA was 429. In men, older age (P for trend < 0.0001), higher
BMI (P for trend < 0.0001), higher METs score (P for trend = 0.0150), less smoking
(P for trend = 0.0249), and lower green tea consumption (P for trend = 0.0437) were
associated with incident knee OA. In women, older age (P for trend < 0.0001), higher
BMI (P for trend < 0.0001), and alcohol consumption (P = 0.0153) were associated with
incident knee OA.
Conclusions
Several lifestyle-related factors were found to be associated with incident knee OA
and exhibited sex-dependent differences. In particular, higher consumption of green
tea was associated with a lower incidence of knee OA in men.
Keywords
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: July 25, 2019
Accepted:
June 29,
2019
Received in revised form:
March 8,
2019
Received:
December 2,
2018
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