PM&R
Volume 1, Issue 5 , Pages 459-465 , May 2009

Knee Extensor Strength Does Not Protect Against Incident Knee Symptoms at 30 Months in the Multicenter Knee Osteoarthritis (MOST) Cohort

  • Neil A. Segal, MD, MS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, University of Iowa, 200 Hawkins Drive, 0728 JPP, Iowa City, IA 52242-1088†
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: N.A.S.
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  • James C. Torner, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA‡
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  • David T. Felson, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Epidemiology & Training Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA§
    • ,
  • Jingbo Niu, DSc

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Epidemiology & Training Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
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  • Leena Sharma, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Rheumatology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL∥
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  • Cora E. Lewis, MD, MSPH

      Affiliations

    • Division of Preventive Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL#
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  • Michael Nevitt, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA⁎⁎

Received 25 October 2008 ,Accepted 9 March 2009.

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 Funded by the following NIH grants: U01 AG18820, R01 HD43502; U01 AG18832, U01 AG18947, U01 AG19069, and the Paul B. Beeson Career Development Awards Program (K23AG030945).

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doi: 10.1016/j.pmrj.2009.03.005

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Volume 1, Issue 5 , Pages 459-465 , May 2009

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