CATEGORY	Diseases of
SYSTEM	Musculoskeletal System
ORGAN	Bones and connective tissue
ALTERNATE NAMES /COMMON NAMES	OSTEOARTHROSIS
NAMES IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES	Asthi sandhi shotha in Hindi
ICD 10 CLASSIFICATION	M19.011
WORLD STATISTICS	Approximately Osteoarthritis affects about 1.9 million people in Australia, 8 million people in the United Kingdom and nearly 27 million people in the United States.
INDIAN STATISTICS	Not exactly known but OA in India is increasing at an alarming rate.