Danish medical journal
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Danish medical journal · Mar 2013
ReviewMRI in knee osteoarthritis. Application in diet intervention.
This thesis examines two main hypotheses: 1. Obese knee osteoarthritis (KOA) patients can achieve symptomatic improvements following diet intervention regardless of their level of structural damage and overall joint malfunctioning: 2. Rapid weight-loss in obese patients with KOA will lead to improvements in KOA related pathology that can be assessed and evaluated by MRI. ⋯ The results of this thesis support existing guidelines suggesting that diet intervention in obese KOA patients is beneficial for symptomatic improvements. The new information from the thesis is that improvement in clinical symptoms is possible for the majority of patients, independent of their pre-study level of structural damage and measures of joint malfunctioning. The present results also demonstrated that a rapid weight-loss had no association to changes in BML scores and established that changes observed in symptoms and BML scores, following a 16 weeks diet intervention, were not related.