Junior Resident, Centre for Community Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Indian J Public Health. 2010 Jul-Sep;54(3):155-7. doi: 10.4103/0019-557X.75739.
A community-based cross-sectional study was carried out in an urban resettlement colony in South Delhi to study the prevalence of knee osteoarthritis in women aged ≥40 years and treatment seeking behavior of women suffering from osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis was diagnosed by using clinical criteria given by American College of Rheumatology for diagnosis of Idiopathic Osteoarthritis of knee joints. A total 260 women were interviewed out of which 123 (47.3%) women were found to be suffering from knee osteoarthritis. Prevalence of osteoarthritis found to be increased with age. Less than half of those with osteoarthritis underwent treatment. With this high prevalence of osteoarthritis, there is need to spread awareness about the disease, its prevention, and rehabilitation in the community.
本研究在德里南部的一个城市移民聚居区进行了一项基于社区的横断面研究，旨在调查年龄≥40 岁的女性中膝骨关节炎的流行情况以及患有骨关节炎的女性的治疗寻求行为。骨关节炎的诊断采用美国风湿病学会（American College of Rheumatology）给出的膝关节特发性骨关节炎的临床标准。共对 260 名女性进行了访谈，其中 123 名（47.3%）女性患有膝骨关节炎。骨关节炎的患病率随年龄增长而增加。只有不到一半的骨关节炎患者接受了治疗。鉴于骨关节炎的高患病率，有必要在社区中普及有关该疾病的预防、康复知识。
