IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/plo/pone00/0192478.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Factors associated with knee pain in 5148 women aged 50 years and older: A population-based study

Author

Listed:
  • Kyoung Min Lee
  • Seung-Baik Kang
  • Chin Youb Chung
  • Moon Seok Park
  • Dong-wan Kang
  • Chong bum Chang

Abstract

Objective: This study was performed to investigate the factors associated with the level of knee pain in a nationally representative sample of noninstitutionalized women aged 50 years or older. Methods: Women aged 50 years or older were selected and included in the data analyses from the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (2010–2013). Those having malignant diseases or using osteoarthritis medication were excluded. Significant factors associated with the level of knee pain were analyzed using multivariate regression analysis. Results: A total of 5148 women (average age, 62.9 years; standard deviation, 9.3 years) were included. For women without knee osteoarthritis, level of hip pain (p

Suggested Citation

  • Kyoung Min Lee & Seung-Baik Kang & Chin Youb Chung & Moon Seok Park & Dong-wan Kang & Chong bum Chang, 2018. "Factors associated with knee pain in 5148 women aged 50 years and older: A population-based study," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(3), pages 1-9, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0192478
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0192478
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0192478
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0192478&type=printable
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1371/journal.pone.0192478?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0192478. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: plosone (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.