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Document ID (ISN)109134
CIS number 09-39
ISSN - Serial title 1351-0711 - Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Year 2008
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Jensen L.K.
Title Knee osteoarthritis: Influence of work involving heavy lifting, kneeling, climbing stairs or ladders, or kneeling/squatting combined with heavy lifting
Bibliographic information Feb. 2008, Vol.65, No.2, p.72-89. Illus. 45 ref.
Abstract The purpose of this literature survey was to evaluate the evidence for an association between knee osteoarthritis (OA) and physical work demands. Epidemiological studies published from 1966 to 2007 were reviewed. Moderate evidence was found for a relationship between kneeling, heavy lifting and knee OA. For the combination of kneeling/squatting and heavy lifting the association seemed stronger than for kneeling/squatting or heavy lifting alone, but only a few studies were found concerning this relationship. In the studies on the association between knee OA and climbing stairs or ladders, there was an increased risk for knee OA, but again only a few studies were found and no dose-response relationship was investigated. The evidence of a causal relationship is therefore considered to be limited.
Descriptors (primary) manual lifting; physical workload; risk factors; osteoarthritis; knee lesions; work posture
Descriptors (secondary) literature survey; occupation disease relation; reliability; kneeling posture; epidemiology; squatting posture
Document type D - Periodical articles
Country / State or ProvinceDenmark
Subject(s) Occupational physiology
Occupational pathology
Broad subject area(s) Occupational medicine, epidemiology
Browse category(ies) Work posture
Diseases of the musculoskeletal system