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Am J Epidemiol 2004; 159:968-977.
Copyright © 2004 by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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A Case-Control Study of Serum Tocopherol Levels and the Alpha- to Gamma-Tocopherol Ratio in Radiographic Knee Osteoarthritis

The Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project

Joanne M. Jordan1 , Anneclaire J. De Roos2, Jordan B. Renner1, Gheorghe Luta1, Amy Cohen3, Neal Craft4, Charles G. Helmick5, Marc C. Hochberg6 and Lenore Arab1

1 Thurston Arthritis Research Center, Schools of Medicine and Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC.
2 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
3 School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.
4 Craft Technologies, Inc., Wilson, NC.
5 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.
6 School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD.

Tocopherols are lipid-soluble antioxidants that may protect against some conditions of aging. The authors examined associations between radiographic knee osteoarthritis and serum levels of {alpha}-, {delta}-, and {gamma}-tocopherol and the {alpha}:{gamma}-tocopherol ratio in African-American and White adults from the Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project (North Carolina, 1991–1997). Two hundred cases with radiographic knee osteoarthritis (Kellgren-Lawrence grades >=2) and 200 controls (Kellgren-Lawrence grade 0) were randomly selected and matched by age, ethnicity, and sex. Serum tocopherol levels were measured by high performance liquid chromatography. Conditional logistic regression was used to estimate associations between radiographic knee osteoarthritis and tertiles of each tocopherol measure, independent of confounders. Persons in the highest tertile of the {alpha}:{gamma}-tocopherol ratio had half the odds of radiographic knee osteoarthritis as those in the lowest tertile (adjusted odds ratio = 0.5, 95% confidence interval: 0.2, 1.2). This inverse association occurred in all ethnic and sex subgroups, significantly in African Americans and men. Radiographic knee osteoarthritis was inversely associated with serum {alpha}-tocopherol in African Americans and men, positively associated with serum {gamma}-tocopherol in men, and unassociated with serum {delta}-tocopherol. Associations between radiographic knee osteoarthritis and tocopherol isoforms are complex and may vary by ethnicity and sex.

alpha-tocopherol; antioxidants; gamma-tocopherol; osteoarthritis, knee; tocopherols; vitamin E

Abbreviations: Abbreviation: HPLC, high performance liquid chromatography.


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