Sex Differences in the Associations of Creatinine to Cystatin C Ratio with Incident Symptomatic Knee Osteoarthritis-Evidence From the CHARLS
Boran Sun,
Lemeng Ma,
Aerman Nuer
et al.
Abstract:Background
Little was known about whether Creatinine to Cystatin C Ratio (CCR) can predict the occurrence of symptomatic knee osteoarthritis (KOA). We examined the association between CCR and incident KOA and sex differences among Chinese middle-aged and older adults.
Methods
We included 4,155 participants aged ≥ 45 years in the 2011 and 2015 wave of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). The incident of symptomatic KOA was defined as participants who were free of symptomatic KOA at ba… Show more
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