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ReviewCurrent rheumatology reports2021

Current Epidemiology and Risk Factors for the Development of Hand Osteoarthritis.

Benjamin Plotz, Fernando Bomfim, Mohammad Ahsan Sohail, Jonathan Samuels

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Review in Current rheumatology reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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32citing papers in PubMed
7.3field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 58 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Benjamin PlotzDivision of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, NYU Langone Health, 333 E. 38th St, 4th Floor, New York, NY, 10016, USA. plotzb@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-7022-7177
Fernando BomfimDivision of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, NYU Langone Health, 333 E. 38th St, 4th Floor, New York, NY, 10016, USA.
Mohammad Ahsan SohailDepartment of Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Jonathan SamuelsDivision of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, NYU Langone Health, 333 E. 38th St, 4th Floor, New York, NY, 10016, USA.
NYU Langone Health · USCleveland Clinic · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewHand osteoarthritis (hand OA), the most common peripheral arthritis in the world, is less studied than osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee and hip. However, it is uniquely situated to offer novel insight into OA as a disease process by removing weight-bearing as a confounder of systemic disease mechanisms. Here we review the epidemiology of hand OA and key risk factors for its development. RECENT

findingsMounting evidence points to obesity as an important risk factor for hand OA development, with new evidence implicating a role for leptin and serum fatty acids. Disease progression in hand OA and specifically the erosive OA subtype may be associated with diabetes. New evidence supports an association between cardiovascular disease progression and symptomatic hand OA. Alcohol use may be associated with increased synovitis and erosive hand OA. Differences in ethnical distributions of hand OA have become more apparent, with a lower prevalence in Black patients compared to White patients. Novel genetic insights implicating the WNT gene pathway and IL-1β have led to novel potential targets in hand OA pathogenesis. Hand OA is a heterogeneous disease with many modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors that can determine disease severity and shed light on disease pathogenesis.

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OsteoarthritisOsteoarthritis, KneeHandHumansKnee JointPrevalenceRisk FactorsAgingEpidemiologyGenetic factorsHand osteoarthritisObesityPrevalence

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PMID34216294
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