To compare clinical picture of osteoarthrosis (OA) in subjects with abdominal obesity (AO), gluteofemoral obesity (GO) and normal body mass (NBM).
The examination including assessment of anthropometric parameters, clinical characteristics of the joints, total cholesterol (TC), C-reactive protein (CRP), ultrasonography of the joints was made in 123 females aged 40-80 years with primary OA.
OA characteristics did not differ much in GO and NBM women, while these differences were obvious in AO women who had TC and CRP much higher than NBM women. Also, AO patients had a significantly higher periarticular index, thinner cartilage, thicker synovial membrane.
Manifestation of clinical OA characteristics depends rather on a phenotypical variant of fat deposition than on overweight.