SAN DIEGO — The ability to recognize common osteoarthritis risk factors will become increasingly critical in the coming decades, as recent data project the global prevalence of the disease will reach 1 billion by 2050, noted a speaker here.
“The prevalence and incidence of osteoarthritis is really astounding,” Kenneth C. Kalunian, MD, of the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, told attendees at the 2023 Congress of Clinical Rheumatology West. “The global prevalence is about 500 million people. Recently, it was projected that this would reach
