Examining sex differences in knee pain: the Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study

被引：102

作者：

Glass, N. ^{[1
]}

Segal, N. A. ^{[1
]}

Sluka, K. A. ^{[1
]}

Torner, J. C. ^{[1
]}

Nevitt, M. C. ^{[2
]}

Felson, D. T. ^{[3
]}

Bradley, L. A. ^{[4
]}

Neogi, T. ^{[3
]}

Lewis, C. E. ^{[4
]}

Frey-Law, L. A. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA

[2] Univ Calif San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA

[3] Boston Univ, Boston, MA 02215 USA

[4] Univ Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, AL USA

来源：

OSTEOARTHRITIS AND CARTILAGE | 2014年 / 22卷 / 08期

关键词：

Sex differences; Knee pain; Knee osteoarthritis; CARTILAGE LOSS; GENDER-DIFFERENCES; RISK-FACTORS; JOINT; FIBROMYALGIA; ASSOCIATION; PREVALENCE; WOMEN; MEN; EPIDEMIOLOGY;

D O I：

10.1016/j.joca.2014.06.030

中图分类号：

R826.8 [整形外科学]; R782.2 [口腔颌面部整形外科学]; R726.2 [小儿整形外科学]; R62 [整形外科学（修复外科学）];

学科分类号：

100224 [整形外科学];

摘要：

Objective: To determine whether women experience greater knee pain severity than men at equivalent levels of radiographic knee osteoarthritis (OA). Design and methods: A cross-sectional analysis of 2712 individuals (60% women) without knee replacement or a recent steroid injection. Sex differences in pain severity at each Kellgren-Lawrence (KL) grade were assessed by knee using visual analog scale (VAS) scale and Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Arthritis Index (WOMAC) with and without adjustment for age, analgesic use, Body mass index (BMI), clinic site, comorbid conditions, depression score, education, race, and widespread pain (WSP) using generalized estimating equations. Effect sizes (Cohen's d) were also calculated. Analyses were repeated in those with and without patellofemoral OA (PFOA). Results: Women reported higher VAS pain at all KL grades in unadjusted analyses (d = 0.21-0.31, P < 0.0001-0.0038) and in analyses adjusted for all covariates except WSP (d = 0.16-0.22, P < 0.0001-0.0472). Pain severity differences further decreased with adjustment for WSP (d = 0.10-0.18) and were significant for KL grade <= 2 (P = 0.0015) and 2 (P = 0.0200). Presence compared with absence of WSP was associated with significantly greater knee pain at all KL grades (d = 0.32-0.52, P < 0.0001-0.0008). In knees with PFOA, VAS pain severity sex differences were greater at each KL grade (d = 0.45-0.62, P = 0.0006-0.0030) and remained significant for all KL grades in adjusted analyses (d = 0.31-0.57, P = 0.0013-0.0361). Results using WOMAC were similar. Conclusions: Women reported greater knee pain than men regardless of KL grade, though effect sizes were generally small. These differences increased in the presence of PFOA. The strong contribution of WSP to sex differences in knee pain suggests that central sensitivity plays a role in these differences. (C) 2014 Osteoarthritis Research Society International. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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页码：1100 / 1106

页数：7

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