University of British Columbia and Arthritis Research Centre of Canada, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. jcibere@arthritisresearch.ca
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Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2010 Dec;62(12):1691-8
To determine the prevalence of pre-radiographic osteoarthritis (ROA) and ROA of the knee in a symptomatic population-based cohort, and to evaluate the clinical correlates of pre-ROA and ROA.
Subjects ages 40-79 years with knee pain were recruited as a random population sample and classified using magnetic resonance cartilage (MRC) scores (range 0-4) and Kellgren/Lawrence (K/L) scale grades (range 0-4) as no OA (MRC score