Osteoarthritis
Hip osteoarthritis
There is now compelling evidence that farmers have an increased risk of hip OA. Early casecontrol studies from Finland, Sweden, and Frence suggested that farmers had higher rates of total hip arthroplasty for OA than other occupational groups (with a relative risk of 2-3 for surgically treated disease). In large Swedish cohort study, which included 250000 people who had held the same blue-collar occupations in successive censuses, the risk of admission for hip OA among farmers was increased nearly 4-fold relative to occupations deemed to have a low physical workload.