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NEW DELHI: Arthritis is not an affliction that plagues you in old age, as a survey in five Delhi hospitals three state-run and two private found recently. In fact, one in every four osteoarthritis patients turned out to be less than 40+ years old and often overweight.

The survey, held over the past six months in Veer Savarkar, Hedgewar, Jagpravesh, RK and Malik Medix Hospitals, had orthopaedic surgeons reporting 600 patients with knee pain. Of the, 26% were in their thirties and the rest above the age of 40. The orthopaedic surgeons disclosed that while most of the patients under 40 had mild to moderate arthritis, 25% of them complained of severe symptoms, for example difficulty walking for 10 minutes. Their x-rays revealed marked narrowing of the knee joint space, Dr Sushil Sharma, who led the research team, said.

The increased incidence of obesity, the researchers found, was the leading cause of osteoarthritis in the younger adults. "In our hospital, we found the younger patients were overweight women," Dr Arvind Kumar, one of the researchers from east Delhi's Hedgewar Hospital, told TOI. "They were from the poorer socio-economic group and had taken to alternative therapies for pain relief. Some of the medicines they used contained steroids."

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Arthritis gets younger: 1 in every 4 below 40 years - Times of India

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