Osteoarthritis: Higher Risks for Women

Name: Osteoarthritis: Higher Risks for Women
Uploaded: 2025-02-17T13:01:14+00:00
Duration: 47 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Dr. Charles Mok explains why women over 60 develop osteoarthritis at nearly twice the rate of men. Postmenopausal status, excess weight, and past…

17 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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Dr. Charles Mok explains why women over 60 develop osteoarthritis at nearly twice the rate of men. Postmenopausal status, excess weight, and past athletic activity all raise the risk. Staying fit and treating symptomatic joints early keeps you mobile as you age.

Questions this video answers

Knees, hips, and wrists ("the low hanging fruit" — 95% of arthritis in America).

About 50% more.

Men around 18%; women about 35–36% (ages 60–69).

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The low hanging fruit is the knees, the hips, the wrists. These are the 95% of arthritis in America. Women over 60 have symptomatic arthritis 50% more than men. So men around 18% have symptomatic arthritis that are men between 60 and 69 and women is about 35, 36%. But as we get older the rates, you know, go up and typically in postmenopausal period people that are overweight have more arthritis than people of normal weight. People that have been athletes have more arthritis than non athletic people. However, activity is a slight prevention arthritis because you're more likely to be fit and not as heavy and one of the key keys are for longevity. If we want to live a healthy life and not be debilitated in our final years we've got to be fit and to be fit we've got to be mobile. And to be mobile you're only as good as your worst joint. You've got a bad joint. I would get on that and get it resolved.