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Knee Osteoarthritis Risk in Retired Professional Footballers

NCT02098044 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 1300

Last updated 2018-05-24

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The OA and Football Study is an epidemiological study designed to establish the prevalence of knee osteoarthritis in retired professional footballers. The study will also identify the key risk factors associated with knee osteoarthritis. The study is comprised of three phases: Phase I involves the dissemination of a questionnaire (demographic details, players history, injury and surgery and other known risk factors of OA), Phase II is a radiographic study that involves x-rays in a sample of footballers both with and without knee pain and Phase III is a case control study which will compared retired professional footballers with age-matched controls recruited from the general population in the East Midlands region.

Conditions

  • Osteoarthritis of the Knee

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Arthritis Research UK

    collaborator OTHER

  • Federation Internationale de Football Association

    collaborator OTHER

  • SPIRE Hospitals

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Football Association (UK)

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Professional Football Association (UK)

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • University of Nottingham

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Michael Doherty, MD · University of Nottingham

Eligibility

Min Age
40 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-11-30
Primary Completion
2016-01-31
Completion
2018-12-31

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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