Mohajer, Bahram
Moradi, Kamyar
Guermazi, Ali
Dolatshahi, Mahsa
Roemer, Frank W.
Ibad, Hamza A.
Parastooei, Ghazaal
Conaghan, Philip G.
Zikria, Bashir A.
Wan, Mei
Cao, Xu
Lima, Joao A. C.
Demehri, Shadpour
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (R01AR079620-01)
National Institute on Aging (P01AG066603)
Article History
Received: 7 June 2023
Revised: 26 September 2023
Accepted: 26 September 2023
First Online: 16 October 2023
Declarations
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: The medical ethics review boards of the University of California, San Francisco (Approval Number: 10–00532) and the four clinical centers of Osteoarthritis Initiative project recognized the project as Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)-compliant. This project was in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments, and all individuals gave their informed consent prior to their inclusion in the study. The authors of this manuscript certify that they comply with the ethical guidelines for authorship and publishing in the Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia, and Muscle.
: Subjects have given informed consent before participating in the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI) project.
: None of the authors has any conflicting personal or financial relationships with the organization that sponsored the research (NIH) that could have influenced the results of this study. FWR is chief marketing officer and shareholder of Boston Imaging Core Lab (BICL), LLC, and consultant to Calibr — California Institute of Biomedical Research and Grünenthal GmbH. AG is a shareholder of BICL and consultant to Pfizer, TissueGene, MerckSerono, Novartis, Regeneron, and AstraZeneca. SD reported that he received funding from Toshiba Medical Systems (for consultation) and grants from GERRAF and Carestream Health (for a clinical trial study). PGC is supported in part through the UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leeds Biomedical Research Centre. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the National Health Service, the NIHR, or the Department of Health. Other authors declare that they did not have any competing interests.