Prevalence of osteoarthritis of knee joint among adult population in a rural area of Kanchipuram District, Tamil Nadu

• Main Authors: Jayaseelan Venkatachalam (Author), Murugan Natesan (Author), Muthurajesh Eswaran (Author), Abel K Samuel Johnson (Author), V Bharath (Author), Zile Singh (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the most common degenerative disorders among the elderly population; although aging is the most important cause, research has shown that it is a complex disease with many etiologies. It is not an inevitable part of aging but rather the result of a combinatio...