Mat, Sumaiyah and Jaafar, Mohamad Hasif and Ng, Chin Teck and Sockalingam, Sargunan and Raja, Jasmin and Kamaruzzaman, Shahrul Bahyah and Chin, Ai-Vyrn and Abbas, Azlina Amir and Chan, Chee Ken and Hairi, Noran Naqiah and Othman, Sajaratulnisah and Cumming, Robert G. and Tey, Nai Peng and Tan, Maw Pin (2019) Ethnic differences in the prevalence, socioeconomic and health related risk factors of knee pain and osteoarthritis symptoms in older Malaysians. PLoS ONE, 14 (11). e0225075. ISSN 1932-6203, DOI https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0225075.
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Knee pain is often underreported, underestimated and undertreated. This study was conducted to estimate the prevalence, burden and further identify socioeconomic factors influencing ethnic differences in knee pain and symptoms of OA among older adults aged 55 years and over in Greater Kuala Lumpur (the capital city of Malaysia). The sample for the Malaysian Elders Longitudinal Research (MELoR) was selected using stratified random sampling, by age and ethnicity from the electoral rolls of three parliamentary constituencies. Information on knee pain was available in 1226 participants, mean age (SD) 68.96 (1.57) years (409 Malay, 416 Chinese, 401 Indian). The crude and weighted prevalence of knee pain and self-reported knee OA symptoms were 33.3% and 30.8% respectively. There were significant ethnic differences in knee pain (crude prevalence: Malays 44.6%, Chinese 23.5% and Indians 31.9%, p<0.001). The presence of two or more non-communicable diseases (NCD) attenuated the increased risk of knee pain among the ethnic Indians compared to the ethnic Chinese. The prevalence of knee pain remained significantly higher among the ethnic Malays after adjustment for confounders. While the prevalence of knee pain in our older population appears similar to that reported in other published studies in Asia, the higher prevalence among the ethnic Malays has not previously been reported. Further research to determine potential genetic susceptibility to knee pain among the ethnic Malays is recommended. © 2019 Mat et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | Fundamental Research Grants Scheme from the Ministry of Education, Malaysia ((FRGS/1/2019/ SKK02/UM/01/1), University of Malaya under the Wellness Research Centre (WRC) Impact-oriented Interdisciplinary Research Grant (IIRG024-2019), High Impact Research Grant from the Ministry of Education (UM.C/625/1/HIR/MOHE/ASH/02), University of Malaya under the Wellness Research Centre (WRC) grant challenge grant (GC002A-HTM) |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Osteoarthritis; Osteoarthritis, Knee; Hip osteoarthritis |
| Subjects: | R Medicine |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Economics & Administration Faculty of Medicine |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Mar 2020 05:28 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Mar 2020 05:28 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/24037 |
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