Exploring the association between Frailty Index and Knee osteoarthritis in middle-aged and older Chinese adults: A cross-sectional analysis of data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study

• Na Zhu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Na Zhu, Hongming Lin, Jia Yu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Changshu Hospital Affiliated to Soochow University, Changshu No.1 People’s Hospital, Changshu, China

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• Hongming Lin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Na Zhu, Hongming Lin, Jia Yu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plastic Surgery, Xiangyang No.1 People’s Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Xiangyang, China

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• Jia Yu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Na Zhu, Hongming Lin, Jia Yu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Changshu Hospital Affiliated to Soochow University, Changshu No.1 People’s Hospital, Changshu, China

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• Rong Yang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Changshu Hospital Affiliated to Soochow University, Changshu No.1 People’s Hospital, Changshu, China

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• Danhao Tao,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Changshu Hospital Affiliated to Soochow University, Changshu No.1 People’s Hospital, Changshu, China

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• Guoxin Huang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Evidence-Based Medicine Center, Xiangyang No.1 People’s Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Xiangyang, China

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• Da Qian ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ^* drqianda@hotmail.com (DQ); 2531593577@qq.com (YL); cbq0433@suda.edu.cn (BC)

  Affiliation Department of Burn and Plastic Surgery-Hand Surgery, Changshu Hospital Affiliated to Soochow University, Changshu No.1 People’s Hospital, Changshu, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6062-8161

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• Yu Liu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ^* drqianda@hotmail.com (DQ); 2531593577@qq.com (YL); cbq0433@suda.edu.cn (BC)

  Affiliation Department of Medical, Xiangyang No.1 People’s Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Xiangyang, Hubei, China

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• Bingqian Chen

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ^* drqianda@hotmail.com (DQ); 2531593577@qq.com (YL); cbq0433@suda.edu.cn (BC)

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Changshu Hospital Affiliated to Soochow University, Changshu No.1 People’s Hospital, Changshu, China

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