Lifetime risk and epidemiology of foot osteoarthritis

What this research hopes to achieve

• Describe the incidence, progression and risk factors for radiographic foot OA from ‘The Chingford 1000 Women Study’
• Determine associations between lower limb biomechanical markers and radiographic foot OA in a sample of women selected from the returnees in ‘The Chingford 1000 Women Study’
• Investigate potential gender differences related to foot OA by comparing self-reported foot characteristics between ‘The Chingford 1000 Women Study’ cohort at year 23 and a sample of men selected from The GOAL cohort
• Use the radiographic foot images taken in to develop a reliable electronic atlas for future clinical evaluation of digitised radiographic foot OA, incorporating the ‘Hip and knee Morf’ technology