Patterns of Change Over Time in Knee Bone Shape Are Associated with Sex.

CONCLUSIONS: The shapes of the distal femur and proximal tibia did not change much over time. Sex and baseline knee radiographic OA status are associated with the trajectory of change in the bone's shape, suggesting that both may contribute earlier in life to the associations among trajectories observed in older individuals. Future studies might explore sex-related bone shape change earlier in life to help determine when the sex-specific shapes arise and also the degree to which these sex-related shapes are alterable by injury or other events. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level III, prognostic study. PMID: 32187098 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research - March 10, 2020 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Wise BL, Niu J, Zhang Y, Liu F, Pang J, Lynch JA, Lane NE Tags: Clin Orthop Relat Res Source Type: research