Clinical, radiologic, demographic, and occupational aspects of hand osteoarthritis in the elderly*
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Patients
Patients admitted to the Shmuel Horofeh geriatric medical center for any reason during a 6-month period were consecutively recruited into the study and approved by the local research ethics committee after they gave informed consent. Excluded were patients with rheumatoid arthritis and those with neurologic, orthopedic, or other conditions that could interfere with the free symmetrical use of both hands. Patients mentally unable to comply with the administered questionnaire and patients whose
Results
Two hundred fifty-three elderly patients, 171 women and 82 men, with a mean age of 78.8 years were evaluated. Their demographic data are reported in Table 1.
Discussion
Our cohort of 253 elderly general geriatrics patients enabled us to conduct the study from a nonrheumatologic perspective. Additional differences between this study and most series are the relatively very advanced age (mean, 78.8 years), Jewish ethnicity, and the ability to define European (Ashkenazi) versus Mediterranean-Asian (Sepharadi) provenance. Clinical and radiologic data, together with demographic and past occupational data were studied and analyzed to characterize OA and to evaluate
Acknowledgements
The authors thank Aylon Neumann, MSc for his assistance with statistical analysis.
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