Association of the visceral fat metabolic score with osteoarthritis risk: a cross-sectional study from NHANES 2009-2018

• Main Authors: Hongfei Xue (Author), Longyao Zhang (Author), Jiankang Xu (Author), Kuiliang Gao (Author), Chao Zhang (Author), Lingling Jiang (Author), Sirui Lv (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2024-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Currently, obesity has been recognized to be an independent risk factor for osteoarthritis (OA), and the Metabolic Score for Visceral Fat (METS-VF) has been suggested to be potentially more accurate than body mass index (BMI) in the assessment of obesity. Nevertheless, the correl...