ARTIST: ARThrose Intervention STandardisée

Almirall

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 4

Conditions: Knee Osteoarthritis

Treatments: Behavioral: Education, weight reduction and physical exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT00462319

2004/07

Details and patient eligibility

About

International recommendations (ACR,EULAR) emphasize physical exercise and weight loss for patients suffering from knee osteoarthritis. Nevertheless, number of patients receiving advices for these 2 points still low. This study evaluates the impact of a standardized medical intervention (patient education, weight reduction and physical exercise) in knee osteoarthritis patients.

Sex: All

Ages: 45 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• symptomatic and ambulatory patients
• suffering from knee osteoarthritis (ACR criteria)
• 25<BMI<35
• signed informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• need to surgery within 6 next months
• co-morbidity

Trial design

Primary purpose: Educational/Counseling/Training

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)