Sex-Specific Trends in the Prevalence of Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis From 2005 to 2021 in South Korea: Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study

Seoyoung Park   ^{1, 2 *} , MS ;   Yejun Son   ^{1, 2 *} , MS ;   Hyeri Lee   ^{1, 3} , MS ;   Hayeon Lee   ^{1, 4} , MS ;   Jinseok Lee   ⁴ , PhD ;   Jiseung Kang   ^{5, 6} , PhD ;   Lee Smith   ⁷ , PhD ;   Masoud Rahmati   ^{8, 9, 10} , PhD ;   Elena Dragioti   ¹¹ , PhD ;   Mark A Tully   ¹² , PhD ;   Guillaume Fond   ¹⁰ , MD, PhD ;   Laurent Boyer   ¹⁰ , MD, PhD ;   Jun Hyuk Lee   ¹³ , BS ;   Damiano Pizzol   ^{14, 15} , PhD ;   Jaeyu Park   ^{1, 3} , PhD ;   Selin Woo   ¹ , PhD ;   Dong Keon Yon   ^{1, 2, 3, 16} , MD, PhD

¹ Center for Digital Health, Medical Science Research Institute, Kyung Hee University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

² Department of Precision Medicine, Kyung Hee University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

³ Department of Regulatory Science, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

⁴ Department of Electronics and Information Convergence Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Republic of Korea

⁵ Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

⁶ Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

⁷ Centre for Health, Performance and Wellbeing, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom

⁸ Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences, Lorestan University, Khoramabad, Iran

⁹ Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Vali-E-Asr University of Rafsanjan, Rafsanjan, Iran

¹⁰ CEReSS-Health Service Research and Quality of Life Center, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France

¹¹ Research Laboratory Psychology of Patients, Families, and Health Professionals, Department of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

¹² School of Medicine, Ulster University, Londonderry, Londonderry, United Kingdom

¹³ Department of Health and Human Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States

¹⁴ Health Unit, Eni, San Donato Milanese, Italy

¹⁵ Health Unit, Eni, Maputo, Mozambique

¹⁶ Department of Pediatrics, Kyung Hee University Medical Center, Kyung Hee University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

*these authors contributed equally