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Smoking interacts with family history with regard to change in knee cartilage volume and cartilage defect development.
Arthritis and rheumatism - 1 May 2007
Ding Changhai, Cicuttini Flavia, Blizzard Leigh, Jones Graeme
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OBJECTIVE: To describe the effects of smoking on change in knee cartilage volume and increases in knee cartilage defects, and to test for interaction between smoking and family history of osteoarthritis (OA). METHODS: Subjects with at least 1 parent having severe primary knee OA (offspring) and randomly selected controls without this history (a total of 325 subjects with a mean age of 45 years) were measured at...
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