Author(s): V Senthil, Dr. P Uma and Dr. Grace Helina

Abstract:
The prevalence of knee osteoarthritis is much lower in Asians or in black people. Few population-based studies regarding the incidence of knee osteoarthritis were found, with the incidence of knee osteoarthritis being higher in different age group. However, strict comparisons among these studies are limited, because the definition of the incidence of knee osteoarthritis is not the same for each study. A few risk factors for knee osteoarthritis were established, such as female gender and obesity. Also several cross sectional studies have found that the presence of a previous knee injury is significantly associated with the incidence of knee osteoarthritis. One of the limitations in previous studies is the definition of knee osteoarthritis. The most popular grading system for knee osteoarthritis is Kellgren–Lawrence classification. The data for the study was undertaken to determine osteoarthritis among the population in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Frequencies and percentages were calculated to find the prevalence of osteoarthritis. For the purpose of the study a total of 207 female subjects aged (30-80) were engaged. The present study reports that the knee osteoarthritis among the sedentary women of the subjects were found to have a significant level (p<0.05) of osteopenia 2.92% and 2.36% of osteoporosis. Among the study participants 54.7% were certainly neither osteoporotic nor osteopenia. A total of 115 subjects low bone mineral density screened of which 12.17% of subjects were belonging to the age group of 30-40 years and 18.26% of subjects were falling under 40-50 years. The maximum number of subjects in the study population that is 29.57 was found to be between 50- 60 years. In the age group of 60-70 years, there are 26.09% subjects and 13.91% of subjects in 70-80.

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