Accumulation of metabolic risk factors such as overweight, hypertension, dyslipidaemia, and impaired glucose tolerance raises the risk of occurrence and progression of knee osteoarthritis: a 3-year follow-up of the ROAD study

To clarify the association between the occurrence and progression of knee osteoarthritis (KOA) with components of metabolic syndrome (MS), including overweight (OW), hypertension (HT), dyslipidaemia (DL), and impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), in a general population.From the large-scale population-based cohort study entitled Research on Osteoarthritis/Osteoporosis Against Disability (ROAD) initiated in 2005, 1,690 participants (596 men, 1,094...