Stout, Alina C.
Barbe, Mary F.
Eaton, Charles B.
Amin, Mamta
Al-Eid, Fatimah
Price, Lori Lyn
Lu, Bing
Lo, Grace H.
Zhang, Ming
Pang, Jincheng
McAlindon, Timothy E.
Driban, Jeffrey B.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (R01 AR065977)
Article History
Received: 19 September 2017
Accepted: 22 December 2017
First Online: 5 January 2018
Competing interest
: JBD and MFB are members of the Editorial Board of BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders. The other authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: The OAI study was approved by institutional review boards at each OAI clinical site and the coordinating center: Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island Institutional Review Board, The Ohio State University’s Biomedical Sciences Institutional Review Board, University of Pittsburgh Institutional Review Board, University of Maryland Baltimore – Institutional Review Board, and Committee on Human Research at University of California, San Francisco. All participants provided informed consent.
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