Diet-Intestinal Microbiota Axis in Osteoarthritis: A Possible Role

Figure 1

Intestinal microbiota in osteoarthritis (OA). Age, sex, obesity, and diet are risk factors in the etiology of OA (full line) and are associated with the alteration of intestinal microbiota (full line). Thus, it is possible that the intestinal microbiota is involved in the pathogenesis of OA (dotted line).