What age and gender does Osteoarthritis most often affect?

Osteoarthritis a noninflammatory form of Arthritis is the most common joint disorder. It is most likely to begin between the ages of 40 and 50 and affects nearly everyone by age of 80. Osteoarthritis is found more often in men before the age of forty as a result of injury's However during the age of 40 to 70, It appears more readily in women then it does in men. After age 70, the disorder effects both sexes equally.