Is being barefoot, wearing shoes and physical activity associated with knee osteoarthritis pain flares? Data from a usually barefoot Sri Lankan cohort

Autor: Nishamani Batuwita, David J. Hunter, I. Atukorala, Nimesha Rajapaksha, Thashi Chang, Lalith Sirimevan Wijayaratne, Vishmi Ratnasiri, Monika De Silva, Arunasalam Pathmeswaran, Yuqing Zhang
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: International journal of rheumatic diseasesREFERENCES. 24(1)
ISSN: 1756-185X
Popis: AIM To identify the association between hours of being barefoot/wearing footwear, physical activity (PA) and knee osteoarthritis pain flares (KOAF). METHODS Persons with a diagnosis of knee osteoarthritis, who reported previous KOAF, were followed up in a 3 months long telephone-based case-crossover study. Exposures to risk factors were assessed every 10 days and whenever the participants experienced a KOAF. Conditional logistic regression examined associations of KOAF with following: hours of being barefoot/using footwear and PA performed (P
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