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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 10.
Published in final edited form as: J Rheumatol. 2010 Feb 15;37(4):842–850. doi: 10.3899/jrheum.090302

Table 2.

Prevalence of knee and hip OA, by census industrial group of longest job ever held.

N (%) with Radiographic Knee OA* N (%) with Symptomatic Knee OA* N (%) with Radiographic Hip OA N (%) with Symptomatic Hip OA
Managerial and professional specialty 155 (28.7) 85 (16.0) 170 (33.2) 51 (10.0)
Technical, sales, and administrative support 188 (28.9) 121 (18.9) 190 (31.6) 60 (10.0)
Service 164 (41.3) 118 (30.1) 118 (33.0) 43 (12.0)
Farming, forestry, and fishing 18 (47.4) 8 (22.9) 17 (44.7) 3 (8.3)
Precision production, craft, and repair 118 (37.2) 78 (24.8) 99 (32.1) 38 (12.3)
Operators, fabricators, and laborers 209 (37.1) 133 (24.0) 177 (32.7) 70 (13.1)
*

Overall chi-square test significant (p < 0.001). OA: osteoarthritis.