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Life course longitudinal growth and risk of knee osteoarthritis at age 53 years: evidence from the 1946 British birth cohort study (2020)
Journal Article
Staines, K. A., Hardy, R., Samvelyan, H. J., Ward, K. A., & Cooper, R. (2021). Life course longitudinal growth and risk of knee osteoarthritis at age 53 years: evidence from the 1946 British birth cohort study. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 29(3), 335-340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2020.12.012

Objective
To examine the relationship between height gain across childhood and adolescence with knee osteoarthritis in the MRC National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD).

Materials and methods
Data are from 3035 male and female participant... Read More about Life course longitudinal growth and risk of knee osteoarthritis at age 53 years: evidence from the 1946 British birth cohort study.