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We excluded those with knee pain at baseline and compared those who had developed knee pain at the first follow‐up examination (the index visit) with those who had not. We examined pain on most days at joint regions outside the knee in examinations after the index visit. Logistic regression analyses examined the risk of joint‐specific pain adjusted for age, sex, body mass index, and symptoms of depression, and we performed sensitivity analyses excluding those with widespread pain.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results</jats:title><jats:p>In the combined cohorts, 693 persons had knee pain at the index visit and 2,793 did not. A total of 79.6% of those with bilateral knee pain and 63.8% of those with unilateral knee pain had pain during follow‐up in a joint region outside the knee, compared with 49.9% of those without knee pain. There was an increased risk of pain at most extremity joint sites, without a predilection for specific sites. Results were unchanged when those with widespread pain were excluded.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion</jats:title><jats:p>Persons with chronic knee pain are at increased risk of pain in multiple joints in no specific pattern.</jats:p></jats:sec>","journal":"Arthritis &amp; Rheumatology","year":2017,"id":595569,"datarank":0.5244761342199721,"base_score":3.4965075614664802,"endowment":3.4965075614664802,"self_citation_contribution":0.5244761342199721,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.5244761342199721,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":32,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":497276,"name":"Jingbo Niu","orcid":"0000-0002-6170-1965","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1525132,"name":"Emily K. 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