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Wink AE, Gross KD, Brown CA, Guermazi A, Roemer F, Niu J, Torner J, Lewis CE, Nevitt MC, Tolstykh I, Sharma L, Felson DT. Varus thrust during walking and the risk of incident and worsening medial tibiofemoral MRI lesions: the Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study. Osteoarthritis Cartilage 2017; 25:839-845. [PMID: 28104540 PMCID: PMC5473434 DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2017.01.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2016] [Revised: 12/13/2016] [Accepted: 01/10/2017] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
Abstract
OBJECTIVE To determine the association of varus thrust during walking to incident and worsening medial tibiofemoral cartilage damage and bone marrow lesions (BMLs) over 2 years in older adults with or at risk for osteoarthritis (OA). METHOD Subjects from the Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study (MOST) were studied. Varus thrust was visually assessed from high-speed videos of forward walking trials. Baseline and two-year MRIs were acquired from one knee per subject and read for cartilage loss and BMLs. Logistic regression with generalized estimating equations was used to estimate the odds of incident and worsening cartilage loss and BMLs, adjusting for age, sex, race, body mass index (BMI), and clinic site. The analysis was repeated stratified by varus, neutral, and valgus alignment. RESULTS 1007 participants contributed one knee each. Varus thrust was observed in 29.9% of knees. Knees with thrust had 2.17 [95% CI: 1.51, 3.11] times the odds of incident medial BML, 2.51 [1.85, 3.40] times the odds of worsening medial BML, and 1.85 [1.35, 2.55] times the odds of worsening medial cartilage loss. When stratified by alignment, varus knees also had significantly increased odds of these outcomes. CONCLUSION Varus thrust observed during walking is associated with increased odds of incident and worsening medial BMLs and worsening medial cartilage loss. Increased odds of these outcomes persist in varus-aligned knees.
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Affiliation(s)
- A E Wink
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
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- Clinical Epidemiology Research and Training Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Physical Therapy, MGH Institute of Health Professions, Boston, MA, USA.
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
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- Quantitative Imaging Center, Department of Radiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
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- Quantitative Imaging Center, Department of Radiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Radiology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.
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- Clinical Epidemiology Research and Training Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA.
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- Department of Medicine, UAB, Birmingham, AL, USA.
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, USA.
| | - I Tolstykh
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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- Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
| | - D T Felson
- Clinical Epidemiology Research and Training Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA; NIHR Manchester Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, Central Manchester NHS Foundation, Manchester, UK.
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