TY  - JOUR
TI  - Correlation of Femoral Cartilage Thickness and Osteoporosis in Female Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis
AB  - Objective: To evaluate the relationship between ultrasonographic femoral cartilage thickness and presence of concomitant osteoporosis in agroup of female patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA).Materials and Methods: This study included 118 women with knee OA who visited our outpatient clinic. Demographic data were collected,radiologic grading using Kellgren Lawrence (K-L) scale, ultrasonographic femoral cartilage thickness (FCT) evaluation, pain intensity evaluation,disability evaluation using OA index [Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis index (WOMAC)], quality of life measurementusing Short Form-36 (SF-36) and bone density measurement using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) were conducted for each patient.Results: We found that 58 patients (median age: 64.5 years, range: 50-75) had osteoporosis (group 1) and 60 patients (median age: 62 years,range: 51-75) did not have osteporosis (group 2). Group 2 had higher body mass index (BMI) in addition to lower WOMAC, SF-36 physicalfunction, physical role limitation, pain and social function scores. The severity of osteoporosis and K-L staging were negatively correlated. TheDXA femoral neck and total lumbar T-scores were higher in the advanced stages of OA. FCT had no significant correlation with age, WOMACindex and SF-36 scores. Moreover, the left knee FCT was negatively correlated with BMI.Conclusion: Radiologic staging of OA had a negative correlation with osteoporosis but no significant correlation with the quantitativemeasurement of FCT using ultrasonography
AU  - Altuğ Özövez, Gamze
AU  - alp, alev
DO  - 10.4274/tod.galenos.2020.47704
PY  - 2021
JO  - Türk Osteoporoz Dergisi
VL  - 27
IS  - 2
SN  - 2147-2653
SP  - 96
EP  - 102
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/447166
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