Osteoarthritis affecting people in their 30s: International Orthopaedics study
Osteoarthritis (OA), long considered a wear-and-tear disease of old age, is increasingly being diagnosed in patients as young as 30 years, according to a review by researchers published in the journal International Orthopaedics.
The review, published on May 15, reframes osteoarthritis as a heterogeneous syndrome rather than a single disease, driven by diverse biological, biomechanical, metabolic, genetic and molecular mechanisms.
The findings suggest that the traditional "one-size-fits-all" approach to treatment often fails because patients present with different underlying disease drivers.
More than 500 million people worldwide live with OA, accounting for 7.6 per cent of the global population. Prevalence has surged 132 per cent in the past 30 years and is projected to rise by another ...
