| Great progress has been made in the study of the correlation between osteoporosis (OP) and osteoarthritis (OA) during the past decade. OP is closely correlated with OA in many aspects including epidemiology, pathogenesis, genetic gene and others. This paper reviews the most important and representative research results of the correlation between OP and OA, performs the clinical observation combined with the literatures, summarizes the correlation between OP and OA, considers the value and the problem existing in the present studies, and tries to find out problem in studies of the correlation that needs to focus on in the future. |