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Elderly
Chinese living in Beijing have a very low incidence of hip
osteoarthritis compared with whites living in the United States,
according to U.S. and Chinese researchers.
X-rays
taken of the pelvis of 1,506 people age 60 and over living
in Beijing were intermingled with hip x-rays of white men
and women, ages 60 and olde, living in the United States,
and then interpreted for signs of osteoarthritis.
According
to the report in the journal Arthritis and Rheumatism, the
researchers found that "hip osteoarthritis was 80 to
90 percent less frequent [in the Chinese subjects] than in
white persons in the U.S."
Investigators
are hopeful that identification of the genetic and environmental
factors that underlie these differences may help them better
understand and prevent the disease.
Source:
Arthritis Week
of August 4, 2002
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