Posadzy, Magdalena https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6194-377X
Joseph, Gabby B.
McCulloch, Charles E.
Nevitt, Michael C.
Lynch, John A.
Lane, Nancy E.
Link, Thomas M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institutes of Health (R01-AR064771)
Article History
Received: 26 November 2019
Revised: 5 April 2020
Accepted: 15 May 2020
First Online: 22 June 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Thomas M. Link.
: The authors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any companies whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.
: Two of the authors has significant statistical expertise.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects (patients) in this study.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained.
: Data used in the preparation of this article were obtained from the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI) database, which is available for public access at. This specific study design of horizontal tear cohort from OAI has not been used in previous publications.
: • Prospectively collected database with retrospective analysis of meniscal tears• Longitudinal case-control study• Multicenter study