Knee Osteoarthritis patient numbers are soaring

   
 
Knee OA Patient Numbers to Soar (Biloine Young @ OTW)
If current trends continue, nearly 6.5 million Americans between the ages of 35 and 84 will be diagnosed with knee osteoarthritis (OA) within the next ten years according to research presented at the November 2011 American College of Rheumatology meeting in Chicago and reported by PRWEB. People between the ages of 45 and 64 will account for more than half of the cases.
Senior author of the study, Elena Losina, Ph.D., co-director of the Orthopedics and Arthritis Center for Outcomes Research at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in B...