Browsing by Author "Schwartz, Todd A"

Association between general joint hypermobility and knee, hip, and lumbar spine osteoarthritis by race: a cross-sectional study.

Flowers, Portia PE; Cleveland, Rebecca J; Schwartz, Todd A; Nelson, Amanda E; Kraus, Virginia B; Hillstrom, Howard J; Goode, Adam P; ... (11 authors) (Arthritis research & therapy, 2018-04-18)

BACKGROUND:Osteoarthritis (OA) prevalence differs by race. General joint hypermobility (GJH) may be associated with OA, but differences by race are not known. This community-based study examined the frequency of GJH and ...

Limited educational attainment and radiographic and symptomatic knee osteoarthritis: a cross-sectional analysis using data from the Johnston County (North Carolina) Osteoarthritis Project

Callahan, Leigh F; Shreffler, Jack; Siaton, Bernadette C; Helmick, Charles G; Schoster, Britta; Schwartz, Todd A; Chen, Jiu-Chiuan; ... (9 authors) (2010)

Introduction: Applying a cross-sectional analysis to a sample of 2,627 African-American and Caucasian adults aged >= 45 years from the Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project, we studied the association between educational ...

Quantification of the whole-body burden of radiographic osteoarthritis using factor analysis.

Nelson, Amanda E; DeVellis, Robert F; Renner, Jordan B; Schwartz, Todd A; Conaghan, Philip G; Kraus, Virginia B; Jordan, Joanne M (Arthritis Res Ther, 2011)

INTRODUCTION: Although osteoarthritis (OA) commonly involves multiple joints, no widely accepted method for quantifying whole-body OA burden exists. Therefore, our aim was to apply factor analytic methods to radiographic ...