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Why is knee osteoarthritis twice as common in women as in men?

According to a study conducted by British doctors, the reason that osteoarthritis occurs in women twice as often as in men is high heels, which put excessive stress on the knee joint.

The laboratory studied the gait of women accustomed to shoes with high heels. Walking in shoes and barefoot was filmed on a special video camera, and then processed on a computer that calculated the load on the knees. Doctors have found that when walking in shoes with "stiletto heels" the load on the knee joints increases by almost a quarter.

According to the US Orthopedic Society, this fact is not a discovery. Many educated ladies in this country have been choosing to wear low-heeled shoes for quite some time, achieving attractiveness in safer ways. Overseas orthopedists even claim that "the higher the heel, the lower the education."

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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