Knee tissue lesions and prediction of incident knee osteoarthritis over 7 years in a cohort of persons at higher risk

摘要

Objective: Among high risk individuals, whether knee lesions in tissues involved in osteoarthritis (OA) can improve prediction of knee OA is unclear. We hypothesized that models predicting (1) incident osteophytes and (2) incident osteophytes and joint space narrowing can be improved by including symptoms or function, and further improved by lesion status.