According to a recently published health ABC study in Arthritis Care & Research, the older men with radiographic knee osteoarthritis are at higher risk of detrimental falls. The evidence regarding the risk of falls among older people with knee osteoarthritis was earlier reported. But, this study investigated the knee OA and medically managed dangerous falls for substantial public and clinical health significance.

This community-based analysis involved 734 black and white patients of 74.7 mean age to be examined for the knee OA status and the risk of injurious falls association. The Kellgren‐Lawrence grade of ≥2 in at least one knee used to define radiographic KOA. A substantiate diagnoses code algorithm was used to determine the injurious falls. Hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were measured by using Cox regression modeling. The mean (SD) follow‐up time was 6.59 years.

A total of 255 patients exhibited an incident injurious fall throughout the analysis. The patients with radiographic KOA did not show any increased risk of harmful falls when compared with those without radiographic KOA during the multivariate model. However, the men with radiographic KOA showed a significant risk of injurious falls as compared to men without radiographic KOA. Women exhibited no connections with the radiographic KOA. This explains only the older men with radiographic KOA were prone to injurious falls.