The role of tobacco in osteoarthritis remains controversial. The Khoala cohort is the first multicenter French cohort of subjects with knee and / or hip osteoarthritis prevalent . It guarantees its methodology great representativeness and therefore an interesting material for the study of risk factors in the population. In addition, it should have little here Radiographs of hands for all its patients. It therefore has the opportunity to study a possible relationship between tobacco and hip osteoarthritis , knee and hand but also to study the relationship between tobacco and structural evolution of hip osteoarthritis and / or symptomatic knee.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
848
relationship between smoking and severity of functional impairment in patients with osteoarthritis of hip and knee osteoarthritis using datas from cohort KOHALA
Time frame: 5 years
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