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Does knee joint arthropathy exist post-COVID-19 in the long term? A cross-sectional study

2025· article· en· W4408769563 on OpenAlex
Mohamed M. Ahmed, Mohammad Zaino, A. Othman, Hassan AZI, Abdulmajeed ARISHI, Rayan OTAYF, Rasmiah H. KHURAYZI, Asem Amer, Wafaa Mahmoud Amin

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Bibliographic record

VenueGazzetta Medica Italiana Archivio per le Scienze Mediche · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicMusculoskeletal synovial abnormalities and treatments
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCross-sectional studyCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)MedicineKnee JointArthropathySevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)2019-20 coronavirus outbreakTerm (time)Joint (building)OsteoarthritisVirologyInternal medicineSurgeryPathologyPhysics

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: Pain and inflammation in the joints of the lower limbs have been reported in people infected with COVID-19. The primary aim of this study was to investigate knee joint arthropathy after COVID-19 for one year or more, and the secondary objective was to assess the level of functional activities after the recovery of COVID.METHODS: Three hundred ninety-nine people who had recovered from COVID-19 for more than one year and were more than 18 years old participated in this cross-sectional study. The Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) was used online to assess pain, joint stiffness, and physical function. A 5-point Likert Scale and an unpaired t-test were used to measure percentages and differences between domains of the WOMAC.RESULTS: Most of the participants showed a significant increase in knee pain, stiffness, and difficulty with physical function (P<0.001) after recovery from COVID-19, with a total WOMAC score of 96.CONCLUSIONS: After recovery from COVID-19, knee arthropathy is a common symptom in addition to physical function impairment.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.030
Threshold uncertainty score0.982

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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Opus teacher head0.029
GPT teacher head0.338
Teacher spread0.309 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it