Smoking detrimental to joint cartilage

21 September 2009 | by Amy Corderoy Print this article Comments Share this article
Being a former or current smoker is associated with increased annual loss of medial knee cartilage volume and an over 11 times greater risk of bone marrow lesions (BMLs) that last longer than two years, an Australian study finds....

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