Age-dependent ferritin elevations and HFE C282Y mutation as risk factors for symptomatic knee osteoarthritis in males: a longitudinal cohort study

BACKGROUND: Age, gender and genetic predisposition are major intrinsic risk factors for osteoarthritis (OA). Iron increases are associated with age and gene mutation. In the present study, we examined whether serum ferritin, an indicator of total body iron stores, correlates with clinical features i...

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Hauptverfasser: Kennish, Lauren, Attur, Mukundan, Oh, Cheongeun, Krasnokutsky, Svetlana, Samuels, Jonathan, Greenberg, Jeffrey D, Huang, Xi, Abramson, Steven B
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: BioMed Central 2014
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3893611/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24401005
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-15-8
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