Kharma Foucher coauthors featured article examining sex and race disparities in osteoarthritis outcomes

September’s Osteoarthritis and Cartilage editor’s choice paper found that social factors (not neurophysiological) likely drive sex and race differences in OA outcomes

September’s editor’s choice paper reports that neurophysiological differences do not underly sex and race differences in osteoarthritis outcomes

Kharma Foucher joined a team examining the association of neurophysiological measures and pain in Black and white participants in the Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project, a CDC funded longitudinal cohort study based at the Thurston Arthritis Research Center (TARC) at the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine. The team reported that neurophysiological differences did NOT explain sex and racial disparities in pain outcomes.  The study was highlighted as a September Editor's Choice Paper in the journal Osteoarthritis and Cartilage. Read at https://doi.org/ncnj