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A mathematical model of osteoarthosis
1Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Rambam Medical Center, H. Schussheim Rheumatology Research Unit, Haifa, Israel.
Journal of Theoretical Biology
|April 23, 1990
Abstract:
Osteoarthrosis is modeled by a set of differential equations, i.e. equations giving the rate of deterioration of a given factor as a function of the state of the system. Here the system is the assembly of the factors and their deterioration rates, and the factors are the entities relevant to the model such as, for example, shock absorbance of the cartilage. The results are forecasted deteriorations of the factors. If laboratory and clinical findings corroborate our model, it may be accepted as a true description of the illness.