EPISODE · Sep 17, 2010 · 13 MIN
Podcast 101: Osteoarthritis, chondroitin, and glucosamine — one of these things doesn’t belong.
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Answer: Osteoarthritis. Two are nostrums and the other is a disease, but the nostrums have no appreciable effect — on osteoarthritis at least. We discuss a BMJ meta-analysis that uses novel methods to prove the point. The good news is that neither chondroitin nor glucosamine is dangerous, but the bad news is that we spend so much hoping that this is the right combination to alleviate arthritic pain. Interview related link: BMJ meta-analysis News-related links: PSA screening overdiagnoses prostate cancer and doesn’t lower mortality A distinct phenotype of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease New resistance factor, NDM-1, shows up in North America The post Podcast 101: Osteoarthritis, chondroitin, and glucosamine — one of these things doesn’t belong. first appeared on Clinical Conversations.
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Answer: Osteoarthritis. Two are nostrums and the other is a disease, but the nostrums have no appreciable effect — on osteoarthritis at least. We discuss a BMJ meta-analysis that uses novel methods to prove the point. The good news is that neither chondroitin nor glucosamine is dangerous, but the bad news is that we spend so […]
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