Maternal and personal smoking, genetic susceptibility, and risk of osteoarthritis: A population‐based prospective cohort study

Key Points

• To evaluate the relationship between maternal and personal smoking and the risk of osteoarthritis (OA), taking genetic susceptibility into account.
• Population-based prospective cohort design
• Assessment of maternal and personal smoking habits
• Analysis of genetic susceptibility factors
• Evaluation of OA risk among participants
• Both maternal and personal smoking are linked to higher OA risk
• These associations hold true across varying genetic susceptibilities
• No significant interaction between smoking and genetic factors in OA risk

Abstract