Global burden of knee osteoarthritis from 1990 to 2021: Trends, inequalities, and projections to 2035

• Junjie Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Junjie Chen, Xianshuai Chen

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  ¶These authors contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hefei, China

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• Xianshuai Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Junjie Chen, Xianshuai Chen

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation

  ¶These authors contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Sports Trauma and Arthroscopic Surgery, Bozhou People’s Hospital, Bozhou, China

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• Tianshu Wang,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hefei, China

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• Ming Li,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology

  Affiliation Center for Xin’an Medicine and Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine of IHM, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, Hefei, China

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• Huanhuan Dai,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation College of Biology and Food Engineering of Hefei Normal University, Hefei, China

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• Shuangshuang Shang,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Center for Xin’an Medicine and Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine of IHM, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, Hefei, China

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• Lili Cheng,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hefei, China

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• Zhongfu Tang,

  Roles Software, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hefei, China

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• Sidi Liu,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Center for Xin’an Medicine and Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine of IHM, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, Hefei, China

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• Chuanbing Huang

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: chuanbingh@ahtcm.edu.cn

  Affiliation Center for Xin’an Medicine and Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine of IHM, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, Hefei, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0005-1322-2651

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