Usefulness of serum hyaluronic acid levels as a predictor of incidence of hand osteoarthritis analyzed by longitudinal analysis from the Iwaki cohort

Usefulness of serum hyaluronic acid levels as a predictor of incidence of hand osteoarthritis analyzed by longitudinal analysis from the Iwaki cohort

Abstract The factors predicting hand osteoarthritis (HOA) in patients remain unknown. We aimed to investigate the usefulness of serum hyaluronic acid (sHA) levels in predicting HOA progression from a 6-year longitudinal epidemiological study. A total of 417 participants in the Iwaki cohort were foll...

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Main Authors: Tatsuro Saruga, Eiji Sasaki, Ryo Inoue, Daisuke Chiba, Seiya Ota, Hiroki Iwasaki, Ryoko Uesato, Shigeyuki Nakaji, Yasuyuki Ishibashi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-02-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-83693-0

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-83693-0

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