Relative prevalence and distribution of knee, hand and foot symptomatic osteoarthritis subtypes in an English population

Peat, George; Rathod-Mistry, Trishna; Paskins, Zoe; Marshall, Michelle; Thomas, Martin J.; Menz, Hylton B.; Nicholls, Elaine; Myers, Helen; Duncan, Rachel; Van Der Windt, Danielle A.; Roddy, Ed; Dziedzic, Krysia S.

doi:10.1002/msc.1457

Relative prevalence and distribution of knee, hand and foot symptomatic osteoarthritis subtypes in an English population

Peat, George; Rathod-Mistry, Trishna; Paskins, Zoe; Marshall, Michelle; Thomas, Martin J.; Menz, Hylton B.; Nicholls, Elaine; Myers, Helen; Duncan, Rachel; Van Der Windt, Danielle A.; Roddy, Ed; Dziedzic, Krysia S.

Authors

George Peat

Trishna Rathod-Mistry

Zoe Paskins z.paskins@keele.ac.uk

Dr Michelle Marshall m.marshall@keele.ac.uk

Martin Thomas m.thomas@keele.ac.uk

Hylton B. Menz

Elaine Nicholls e.nicholls@keele.ac.uk

Helen Myers

Rachel Duncan

Danielle Van Der Windt d.van.der.windt@keele.ac.uk

Edward Roddy e.roddy@keele.ac.uk

Professor Krysia Dziedzic k.s.dziedzic@keele.ac.uk

Abstract

In this brief report, we used data from a series of three related cohorts on pain and osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee, hand and foot, which were conducted in North Staffordshire, England. We used a common approach for sampling, data collection and coding, to estimate the relative prevalence of 10 different symptomatic radiographic OA subtypes in the knee, hand and foot and to compare their association with age, sex, socioeconomic position and body mass index. Overall, symptomatic hand OA was more common than knee or foot OA (22.4% vs 17.4% vs 16.5%), due mainly to the high prevalence of nodal interphalangeal joint OA among women. The first carpometacarpal joint OA was the most frequent subtype, with patellofemoral, tibiofemoral, (nodal) interphalangeal and midfoot OA also common. Of the risk factors examined, the greatest differences between subtypes appeared to be their associations with sex and obesity: sex differences were noticeably greater for all forms of hand OA except non-nodal interphalangeal joint OA, while obesity appeared most strongly associated with forms of knee OA. The prevalence of all subtypes was higher among older ages, and among those with lower educational attainment.

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Dec 22, 2019
Online Publication Date	Jan 29, 2020
Publication Date	2020-06
Publicly Available Date	May 26, 2023
Journal	Musculoskeletal Care
Print ISSN	1478-2189
Publisher	Wiley
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	18
Issue	2
Pages	219-224
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1002/msc.1457
Keywords	osteoarthritis, population
Publisher URL	https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/msc.1457