Cyrus Cooper

TL;DR: There is a clear tendency towards polyarticular OA among women aged 45-64 years, and there is no single threshold number of joint sites that can be used to define GOA.

TL;DR: Data from the Health Care Financing Administration on 151,986 discharges listing a diagnosis of vertebral fracture over a 4-year period suggests that the race-sex differences in vertebral fractures discharge rates may be due to differences in the incidence of vertebra fracture.

TL;DR: Self-reported nonadherence to daily and weekly bisphosphonates is independent of the decision to stop taking treatment (nonpersistence), and nonpersistence is associated with side effects and other factors that could be modified in clinical practice through education, information, and concordant partnerships.

TL;DR: An association between poor early growth and falls in older men that appears to be mediated partly through sarcopenia is supported and the lack of a relation with birth weight suggests that postnatal rather than prenatal influences on muscle growth and development may be important regarding the risk of falls in later life.

TL;DR: In the first large-scale genome-wide association study (GWAS) meta-analysis, this article aimed to identify common genetic variants associated with chronic widespread pain (CWP) and found that the minor C-allele of rs13361160 on chromosome 5p15.2, located upstream of chaperon-incontaining-TCP1-complex-5 gene (CCT5) and downstream of FAM173B, was associated with a 30% higher risk of CWP.