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Indication assessment · Musculoskeletal

Knee osteoarthritis with obesity — indication assessment

Degenerative joint disease of the knee with radiographic or symptomatic confirmation, occurring with obesity as a mechanical and inflammatory contributor.

Document identifier
CEI-IN-15
Series
Indication assessment
Version
1.0
Published
09 Mar 2023
Last reviewed
09 Mar 2023
Next review
09 Mar 2025
Identifier
10.71829/cei.ind.15
Certainty
Not rated
Cycle
2023 Q1
ICD-11
FA01.0
Category
Musculoskeletal

§1Assessment

§1.1Definition

Degenerative joint disease of the knee with radiographic or symptomatic confirmation, occurring with obesity as a mechanical and inflammatory contributor.

§1.2Anchor and additional outcomes

The Institute designates one anchor outcome per indication so that estimates for different compounds are reported on a common measure. The anchor for this indication is the first outcome below.

  1. WOMAC pain subscale
  2. Physical function score
  3. Analgesic use
  4. Progression to arthroplasty

§1.3State of the evidence

Distribution of certainty ratingsShare of assessed outcomes at each certainty level.3compounds
HighModerateLowVery low
Figure 1. Certainty ratings across the 3 compounds the Institute assesses for this indication. A high rating for one compound says nothing about another.

The Institute assesses 3 compounds in this indication, drawing on 11 trial records and 0 evidence syntheses. No compound is graded above low certainty in this indication, which the Institute records as the principal finding for it.[1,2]

References cited on this page

References are numbered in order of first citation in this document. Each superscript in the text links to its entry below.

  1. Heffernan M, Summers RJ, Thorburn A, Ogru E, Gianello R, Jiang WJ, Ng FM. The effects of human GH and its lipolytic fragment (AOD9604) on lipid metabolism following chronic treatment in obese mice and β3-AR knock-out mice. Endocrinology 2001;142(12):5182–5189. doi:10.1210/endo.142.12.8522 · PMID 11713213
  2. Thevis M, Thomas A, Schänzer W. Detecting peptidic drugs, drug candidates and analogs in sports doping: current status and future directions. Expert Review of Proteomics 2019;11(6):663–673. doi:10.1586/14789450.2014.965158

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