Strong Thighs Protect Against Symptoms of OA

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"Strong thigh muscles minimized the pain from osteoarthritis of the knee, but didn't protect against the development of radiographic evidence of the condition in a longitudinal study.

Both men and women in the highest tertile of peak knee extensor strength had reduced odds of developing incident symptomatic whole knee OA (OR 0.5, 95% CI 0.3 to 0.8 for women; 95% CI 0.3 to 0.9 for men), according to Neil A. Segal, MD, of the University of Iowa, and colleagues."

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