The association between smoking and knee osteoarthritis in a cohort of Danish patients undergoing knee arthroscopy.
Marianne Bakke JohnsenKenneth PihlNis NissenRasmus Reinholdt SørensenUffe JørgensenMartin EnglundJonas Bloch ThorlundPublished in: BMC musculoskeletal disorders (2019)
This study found no relationship between current smoking and early or more established knee OA in a cohort of patients undergoing arthroscopic meniscal surgery. Thus, the inverse association between smoking and knee OA that has been suggested by previous studies was not confirmed.