Socio-Demographic and Risk factors associated with Knee osteoarthritis

Vinotha, S.; Ira, T.; Sri Ranjani, S.

dc.contributor.author	Vinotha, S.
dc.contributor.author	Ira, T.
dc.contributor.author	Sri Ranjani, S.
dc.date.accessioned	2019-01-08T08:57:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2022-06-29T06:39:54Z
dc.date.available	2019-01-08T08:57:00Z
dc.date.available	2022-06-29T06:39:54Z
dc.date.issued	2017-01
dc.identifier.issn	2229-712x
dc.identifier.uri	http://repo.lib.jfn.ac.lk/ujrr/handle/123456789/1191
dc.description.abstract	Knee Osteoarthritis (KOA) is a degenerative joint disease and a major public health problem all over the world. The present study is focused to evaluate the Socio-demographic and Risk factors associated with radiographic evidence of KOA subjects who were attended to Government Ayurveda Hospitals in Jaffna District from January 2013 to August 2014. There were 177 (70.8%) female and 73 (29.2%) male with a mean age of 57.02 (SD±8.78) years and highly significant association between age and gender (P<0.05) and BMI and gender (P<0.05) of KOA subjects. The findings of this study had indicated that risk factors as age, gender, family history, menopause and BMI were similar to the findings of KOA studies of other research studies.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Elixir International Journal, Elixir Orthopedics	en_US
dc.subject	Association	en_US
dc.subject	Demography	en_US
dc.subject	Knee osteoarthritis	en_US
dc.subject	Risk factors	en_US
dc.title	Socio-Demographic and Risk factors associated with Knee osteoarthritis	en_US
dc.type	Other	en_US