A new study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) found that cases of osteoarthritis and the resulting disability among menopausal women have increased by over 130 per cent in the last three decades, globally. The study shows that an excess weight or body mass index (BMI) accounted for about a fifth of the duration lived with the disability which resulted from the condition that deteriorates joints steadily. For this study, the researchers looked at The Global Burden of Disease (GB
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