Abstract
Purpose: Walking speed is one of the health indicators and a predictor of lifespan in elderlies (JAMA 2011). The prevalence of knee osteoarthritis (knee OA) increases with age, and >80% of women over 80 years of age showed knee OA in Japan. However, knee OA was evaluated using radiography in this case. It has been recently shown that when MRI was used under the concept of “early-stage of knee OA”, OA changes were initiated much earlier than those evaluated using radiography. A population based observational study, in which 710 people aged >50 years of age (62.3 years of age in average) who had no radiographic evidence of knee OA [Kellgren-Lawrence (KL) grade 0] and underwent MRI of the knee, showed that the prevalence of any abnormality on MRI was 89% overall (BMJ 2012).
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