Rates of change and sensitivity to change in cartilage morphology in healthy knees and in knees with mild, moderate, and end-stage radiographic osteoarthritis: Results from 831 participants from the osteoarthritis initiative

Arthritis Care and Research

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 311-319

  Eckstein, Felix ^a,b   Nevitt, Michael ^c   Gimona, Alberto ^d   Picha, Kristen ^e   Lee, Jennifer H ^f   Davies, Richard Y ^g   Dreher, Donatus ^h   Benichou, Olivier ⁱ   Le Graverand, Marie Pierre Hellio ^f   Hudelmaier, Martin ^a   Maschek, Susanne ^a   Wirth, Wolfgang ^a  

^a PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b Chondrometrics GmbH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^e CENTOCOR INC   (United States)

^f PFIZER INC   (United States)

^g GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

^h MERCK SERONO S A   (Switzerland)

ⁱ ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNEE MENISCUS; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; KNEE RADIOGRAPHY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THICKNESS; WEIGHT BEARING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE COURSE; EUROPE; HOSPITALIZATION; KNEE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RADIOGRAPHY; TIME; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79961107486     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: 21514658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acr.20370     Document Type: Article

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