Osteoarthritis and cartilage
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Osteoarthr. Cartil. · Aug 2014
Multicenter StudyExamining sex differences in knee pain: the multicenter osteoarthritis study.
To determine whether women experience greater knee pain severity than men at equivalent levels of radiographic knee osteoarthritis (OA). ⋯ Women reported greater knee pain than men regardless of KL grade, though effect sizes were generally small. These differences increased in the presence of PFOA. The strong contribution of WSP to sex differences in knee pain suggests that central sensitivity plays a role in these differences.