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Sep 2026
Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Modifies the Association Between Exercise Therapy and Injury Risk and Long-Term Outcomes in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Introduction Structured exercise is a core treatment for knee osteoarthritis (KOA), but whether its associations with musculoskeletal injury, knee arthroplasty utilization, and opioid use differ by type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) status remains uncertain. Methods This retrospective cohort study used electronic health r...
Jun-Hong Yan, Jia-Ning Lu, Yun-Dong Chen et al.
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