Your Messages Inbox
Most Viewed Abstracts
1. Report Shows Shift in Starting Salaries for Physicians 2. Rapid correction of low vitamin D status in nursing home residents 3. 2008 Exclusive Survey—Earnings: Good news for primary care income 4. Medicare pay-for-reporting effort draws fire from frustrated doctors 5. Allopurinol-induced recurrent dress syndrome: Pathophysiology and treatment
Top Ten Searches
rheumatoid arthritis lupus polymyalgia sjogrens fibromyalgia amyloidosis vasculitis urate raynauds myositisYour Article Summary
See Latest ArticlesEffect of glucosamine or chondroitin sulfate on the osteoarthritis progression: A meta-analysis
Rheumatology International, 06/29/09
Lee YH et al. – Data show that glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate may delay radiological progression of osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee after daily administration for over 2 or 3 years.
Methods- Aim was to assess the structural efficacies of daily glucosamine sulfate and chondroitin sulfate in pts with knee OA
- Studies that examined the effect on joint space narrowing (JSN) in the knee OA pts using the Medline and the Cochrane Controlled Trials Register, and by performing manual searches were included
- Meta-analysis was performed using a fixed effect model because no between-study heterogeneity was evident
- 6 studies involving 1,502 cases; consisted of 2 studies on glucosamine sulfate and 4 studies on chondroitin sulfate
- Glucosamine sulfate did not show an effect vs controls on minimum JSN over the first year of treatment
- However, after 3 yrs of treatment, glucosamine sulfate revealed a small to moderate protective effect on minimum JSN
- The same was observed for chondroitin sulfate, which had a small but significant protective effect on minimum JSN after 2 yrs
Related Articles
Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry analysis contributes to the prediction of hip osteoarthritis progression
Arthritis Research & Therapy, 11/11/09
Relevance Score: 68%
Outcome of ulnohumeral arthroplasty in osteoarthritis of the elbow
Acta Orthopaedica Belgica, 11/06/09
Relevance Score: 65%
Drop Some Weight to Prevent Osteoporosis
MedLinePlus, 11/03/09
Relevance Score: 65%
Surgical Treatment of Femoroacetabular Impingement: A Systematic Review of the Literature
Clinical Orthopedics and Related Research, 10/26/09
Relevance Score: 64%
Repair of erosions occurs almost exclusively in damaged joints without swelling
Annals of Rheumatic Diseases, 11/12/09
Relevance Score: 63%
Today in Clinical Pharmacology...keeping you current
Receive free subspecialty "5-minute updates" via email
Safety of TNF blocking agents in rheumatic patients with serology suggesting past-hepatitis B state: Results from a cohort of 21 patients
Arthritis Research & Therapy, 11/27/09
Effect of alendronate on bone metabolic indices and bone mineral density in patients treated with high-dose glucocorticoid: A prospective study
Osteoporosis International, 11/25/09
Treatment of osteoporosis: Recognizing and managing cutaneous adverse reactions and drug-induced hypersensitivity
Osteoporosis International, 11/25/09
Today in Osteoarthritis...keeping you current
Receive free subspecialty "5-minute updates" via email
Lipid peroxidation, glutathione, vitamin E, and antioxidant enzymes in synovial fluid from patients with osteoarthritis
International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases, 11/24/09
Is osteoarthritis a heterogeneous disease that can be stratified into subsets?
Clinical Rheumatology, 11/24/09
Hip MRI and Its Implications for Surgery in Osteoarthritis Patients
Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America, 11/24/09
Sponsor
Article Search
Sponsor