Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is striking patients at a much younger age – 16 years earlier than in the 1990s, according to a recent study by researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital – a finding that underscores the need for new technologies to address knee pain and possibly reverse this disturbing trend. Currently, 7% of Americans aged 45+ years are diagnosed with knee OA and the mean age of onset was 56 years in 2010 versus 72 years in the 1990s, the researchers told attendees at the 2011 American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Annual Meeting, held last month in Chicago, IL.
Over the next decade, 6.5 million Americans aged 35-84 years are expected to be diagnosed with knee OA and those aged 45-64 will comprise more than half of those cases....
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