Haj-Mirzaian, Arya http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0724-2649
Mohajer, Bahram
Guermazi, Ali
Roemer, Frank W.
Zikria, Bashir
Demehri, Shadpour
Article History
Received: 10 June 2020
Revised: 21 August 2020
Accepted: 22 September 2020
First Online: 2 October 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Dr. Shadpour Demehri.
: 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.
: No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects (patients) in the osteoarthritis initiative (OAI) study.Written informed consent was not directly required for this study, since we have used the data of OAI study.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained.The study has received ethics board approval by the institutional review board at the University of California, San Francisco (OAI Coordinating Center; Approval Number: 10-00532), and all enrolled subjects gave informed consent.
: Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI) is a well-known publicly available dataset. Some study subjects or cohorts have been previously reported in in studies published using the OAI and/or FNIH study.List of studies on OAI dataset can be found in the online address of ExternalRef removed.
: • retrospective• case-control• multicenter study