Can we identify a 'high risk' patient profile to determine who will experience rapid progression of osteoarthritis?
Disease modifying drugs for osteoarthritis (OA) that may halt or retard joint destruction and at the same time possibly improve symptoms are being developed and tested at various stages in clinical trials. This has, for at least two reasons, focused attention on the need for identification of patient groups at high risk for incident or progressive OA. First, well characterized such groups may be u