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Nicholls, E, Thomas, E, van der Windt, DA, Croft, PR and Peat, G (2014) Pain trajectory groups in persons with, or at high risk of, knee osteoarthritis: findings from the Knee Clinical Assessment Study and the Osteoarthritis Initiative. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 22 (12). 2041 - 2050. ISSN 1522-9653
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OBJECTIVE: The authors aimed to characterize distinct trajectories of knee pain in adults who had, or were at high risk of, knee osteoarthritis using data from two population-based cohorts. METHOD: Latent class growth analysis was applied to measures of knee pain severity on activity obtained at 18-month intervals for up to 6 years between 2002 and 2009 from symptomatic participants aged over 50 years in the Knee Clinical Assessment Study (CAS-K) in the United Kingdom. The optimum latent class growth model from CAS-K was then tested for reproducibility in a matched sample of participants from the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI) in the United States. RESULTS: A 5-class linear model produced interpretable trajectories in CAS-K with reasonable goodness of fit and which were labelled "Mild, non-progressive" (N = 201, 35%), "Progressive" (N = 162, 28%), "Moderate" (N = 124, 22%) "Improving" (N = 68, 12%), and "Severe, non-improving" (N = 15, 3%). We were able to reproduce "Mild, non-progressive", "Moderate", and "Severe, non-improving" classes in the matched sample of participants from the OAI, however, absence of a "Progressive" class and instability of the "Improving" classes in the OAI was observed. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings strengthen the grounds for moving beyond a simple stereotype of osteoarthritis as "slowly progressive". Mild, non-progressive or improving symptom trajectories, although difficult to reproduce, can nevertheless represent a genuinely favourable prognosis for a sizeable minority.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | knee, latent class growth analysis, osteoarthritis, pain |
Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) |
Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Primary Care Health Sciences |
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Depositing User: | Symplectic |
Date Deposited: | 27 Feb 2015 09:43 |
Last Modified: | 21 Aug 2018 13:36 |
URI: | https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/308 |