Research · Systematic review
Chondroitin for osteoarthritis
What it found
About an 8/100-point greater short-term pain improvement vs placebo; effect on joint structure minimal and most trials low quality.
- Design
- Systematic review
- Year
- 2015
- Sample size
- 9,110
- Population
- adults with osteoarthritis
- Intervention
- chondroitin (alone or with glucosamine)
- Outcome
- pain, Lequesne index
- Journal
- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Citation last checked 2026-06-21.