With knee pain caused by worn-out cartilage, or osteoarthritis ... Using a high-resolution X-ray scanning technique called micro-computed tomography, the scientists found that the surface of ...

Knee pain from worn-out cartilage, known as osteoarthritis ... Using a high-resolution X-ray scanning technique called ...

Cartilage calcification is associated with knee osteoarthritis (OA). A study by Mitsuyama et al., however, suggests that calcification is primarily a consequence of aging rather than OA.

Amin and colleagues, therefore, investigated the effects of smoking on cartilage loss and knee pain in men with knee osteoarthritis (OA). Their 30 month study evaluated 159 men (mean age 68 years ...