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Papers: 4 Jan 2020 - 10 Jan 2020


Human Studies


2020 06


Arthritis Rheumatol


72


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Associations between radiographic and ultrasound-detected features in hand osteoarthritis and local pressure pain thresholds.

Authors

Steen Pettersen P, Neogi T, Magnusson K, Berner Hammer H, Uhlig T, Kvien TK, Haugen IK
Arthritis Rheumatol. 2020 06; 72(6):966-971.
PMID: 31904188.

Abstract

Pain sensitization contributes to the complex osteoarthritis (OA) pain experience. The relation between hand OA imaging features and clinically assessed pain sensitization is largely unexplored. We aimed to examine the association of structural and inflammatory features of hand OA with local pressure pain thresholds in the Nor-Hand study.