Taishi Sato, Satoshi Yamate, Takeshi Utsunomiya, Yutaka Inaba, Hiroyuki Ike, Koichi Kinoshita, Kenichiro Doi, Tsutomu Kawano, Kyohei Shiomoto, Toshihiko Hara, Kazuhiko Sonoda, Ayumi Kaneuji, Eiji Takahashi, Tomohiro Shimizu, Daisuke Takahashi, Yusuke Kohno, Tamon Kabata, Daisuke Inoue, Shuichi Matsuda, Koji Goto, Taro Mawatari, Shoji Baba, Michiaki Takagi, Juji Ito, Yasuharu Nakashima
BACKGROUND: The incidence of developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) in Japanese newborns has reduced drastically following a primary prevention campaign initiated around 1972 to 1973; this perinatal education campaign promoted maintaining the hips of newborns in the naturally flexed-leg position. The purpose of the present study was to describe the life course epidemiology of hip osteoarthritis (OA) in adolescent and adult patients and to assess its association with exposure to the primary prevention campaign for DDH...
April 16, 2024: Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. American Volume