Tuesday, April 19, 2011
CDC: Achy joints on the rise in US
Privacy Policy: www.cnn.com More than one in five adults in the US have arthritis or other joint-damaging conditions, and the ongoing obesity epidemic may be partly to blame, according to a report issued Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Roughly 50 million US adults have some form of arthritis, the report estimates. That number includes people with osteoarthritis, which is typically caused by aging, as well as those with other, less comm
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