Metabolic syndrome meets osteoarthritis

Volume: 8, Issue: 12, Pages: 729 - 737
Published: Dec 1, 2012
Abstract
Metabolic osteoarthritis (OA) has now been characterized as a subtype of OA, and links have been discovered between this phenotype and metabolic syndrome (MetS)--both with individual MetS components and with MetS as a whole. Hypertension associates with OA through subchondral ischaemia, which can compromise nutrient exchange into articular cartilage and trigger bone remodelling. Ectopic lipid deposition in chondrocytes induced by dyslipidemia...
Paper Details
Title
Metabolic syndrome meets osteoarthritis
Published Date
Dec 1, 2012
Volume
8
Issue
12
Pages
729 - 737
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