FIELD: medicine.
SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine and pharmacology, and represents the use of a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of alpha-ketoglutaric acid for preparing a pharmaceutical composition for treatment or prevention of cartilage diseases in response to weight loss and/or nutritional disorder, poor nutrition, gastrectomy, partial gastrectomy or gastric ligation.
EFFECT: invention provides effective relief and management of articular pain and arthritis.
20 cl, 8 tbl, 3 dwg
