Davis, Julie
Eaton, Charles B.
Lo, Grace H.
Lu, Bing
Price, Lori Lyn
McAlindon, Timothy E.
Barbe, Mary F.
Driban, Jeffrey B.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (R01 AR065977)
Article History
Received: 23 December 2016
Revised: 25 January 2017
Accepted: 27 January 2017
First Online: 10 February 2017
Compliance with ethical standards
: The OAI has been approved and meets all criteria for ethical standards regarding human and animal studies defined in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and all amendments made after. Institutional review boards at each OAI clinical site and the OAI coordinating center (University of California, San Francisco) approved the OAI study. All participants provided informed consent prior to participation.
: These analyses were financially supported by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R01 AR065977. The OAI is a public-private partnership comprised of five contracts (N01-AR-2-2258; N01-AR-2-2259; N01-AR-2-2260; N01-AR-2-2261; N01-AR-2-2262) funded by the National Institutes of Health, a branch of the Department of Health and Human Services, and conducted by the OAI Study Investigators. Private funding partners include Merck Research Laboratories, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, GlaxoSmithKline, and Pfizer, Inc. Private sector funding for the OAI is managed by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health. This manuscript was prepared using an OAI public use data set and does not necessarily reflect the opinions or views of the OAI investigators, the NIH, or the private funding partners. This work was also supported in part by the Houston Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence (HFP90-020). The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.