Association Between Race and Radiographic, Symptomatic, and Clinical Hand Osteoarthritis: A Propensity Score–Matched Study Using Osteoarthritis Initiative Data

Objective To determine the associations between Black race and the presence of radiographic, symptomatic, and clinical hand osteoarthritis (OA). Methods Using available hand radiographs from the Osteoarthritis Initiative cohort (total 4,699; n = 849 Black subjects [18.1%], n = 3,850 non‐Black subjects [81.9%]), a propensity score–matching method was used to match Black subjects with non‐Black subjects for known potential risk factors of hand OA...