Some types of exercise may put you at a higher risk of knee osteoarthritis

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Weight-bearing recreational exercise could increase the risk of knee osteoarthritis in some people, according to international research. While the team say previous research has shown exercise, in general, doesn't increase your risk of knee osteoarthritis, they recruited a cohort of about 5000 people to test how different types of exercise changed the risk - looking specifically at weight-bearing exercises such as jogging or ball sports compared to non-weight-bearing exercises such as swimming or cycling. The researchers say higher weight-bearing exercise was associated with increased odds of developing knee osteoarthritis, but only among participants with the lowest lower-limb muscle mass.

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Organisation/s: University Medical Center Rotterdam, Netherlands

Funder: The Rotterdam Study is funded by Erasmus Medical Center and Erasmus University (Rotterdam, Netherlands), Organization for the Health Research and Development, the Research Institute for Diseases in the Elderly, the Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science, the Ministry for Health,Welfare and Sports, the European Commission, and the Municipality of Rotterdam. DrWu receives support from the China Scholarship Council for his PhD study at Erasmus Medical Center (grant 202008500141).

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