EDITORIAL: Green Tea Bioactive Polyphenol Epigallocatechin-3-O-Gallate in Osteoarthritis: Current Status and Future Perspectives

Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common and the leading cause of joints pain and disability around the world. Despite the power of modern molecular approaches and persisting investigative efforts, therapeutic options for OA treatment are still limited, while providing relief from pain, none of the treatments has been proved to inhibit disease progression; they also have varying degrees of adverse effects such as gastrointestinal toxicity, ulcers, cardiovascular effects etc.