{"id":30648,"date":"2025-06-13T13:30:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T17:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=30648"},"modified":"2025-06-13T01:32:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T05:32:34","slug":"this-takes-arthritis-from-bad-to-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2025\/06\/13\/this-takes-arthritis-from-bad-to-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"This Takes Arthritis from Bad to Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ThisA new study published in Rheumatology<\/em> reveals one single factor that can take your arthritis from bad to worse very quickly.<\/p>\n

Alarmingly, up to 44% of people with knee arthritis are at risk here.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s a simple way to tackle this.<\/p>\n

Researchers from the UK became curious about exactly how much obesity impacts day-to-day function in people with confirmed knee arthritis.<\/p>\n

They turned to the Hertfordshire Cohort Study, which follows the health of older adults in that region.<\/p>\n

First, they identified 216 community-dwelling adults aged 71\u201380 who had knee osteoarthritis confirmed by X-rays.<\/p>\n

Then they split participants into groups based on whether they were obese (having a BMI of 30 kg\/m\u00b2 or higher) or not.<\/p>\n

The team collected information on quality of life (EuroQol-5D scale), pain levels (WOMAC osteoarthritis index), and physical performance through questionnaires and practical tests measuring balance, walking ability, and how well participants could rise from a chair.<\/p>\n

Their findings were clear and concerning:<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n●\tAmong study participants, obesity was common \u2014 affecting 26.7% of men and an alarming 44.3% of women with knee arthritis.<\/p>\n

●\tObese participants were nearly five times more likely to report mobility problems compared to their non-obese peers.<\/p>\n

●\tThe odds of having difficulty with self-care tasks were 3.4 times higher in the obese group.<\/p>\n

●\tObese participants were 4.38 times more likely to struggle with usual daily activities.<\/p>\n

●\tParticipants who were obese were more than twice as likely to report significant pain.<\/p>\n

●\tPhysical performance tests showed significantly poorer results among obese participants, with lower scores on balance, walking, and chair rise tests.<\/p>\n

●\tThe relationship between obesity and these negative outcomes remained strong even after researchers adjusted for age and sex differences.\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

These findings show that obesity doesn’t just contribute to the onset of knee arthritis \u2014 it also worsens its functional limitations and pain.<\/p>\n

The good news is that it\u2019s relatively easy to reverse arthritis with the right food choices.<\/p>\n

Here are the exact steps thousands of readers have taken to rid themselves of arthritis pain naturally\u2026<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new study published in Rheumatology reveals one single factor that can take your arthritis from bad to worse very quickly. Alarmingly, up to 44% of people with knee arthritis are at risk here. But there\u2019s a simple way to tackle this. Researchers from the UK became curious about exactly how much obesity impacts day-to-day […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":30738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arthritis","category-articles"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Obesity-101971196.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30648"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30740,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30648\/revisions\/30740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}