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- Published online March 13, 2009.
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- Joanne M. Jordan,
- Charles G. Helmick,
- Jordan B. Renner,
- Gheorghe Luta,
- Anca D. Dragomir,
- Janice Woodard,
- Fang Fang,
- Todd A. Schwartz,
- Amanda E. Nelson,
- Lauren M. Abbate,
- Leigh F. Callahan,
- William D. Kalsbeek and
- Marc C. Hochberg
- From the Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina; Department of Medicine; Department of Orthopaedics; Department of Epidemiology; Department of Radiology; and Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia; and Department of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Association of Schools of Public Health S043 and S3486 (JMJ, JBR, GL, ADD, JW, FF, LFC, WDK); the National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Multipurpose Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Disease Center 5-P60-AR30701; Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Center 5-P60-AR49465 (JMJ, JBR, GL, ADD, JW, FF, TAS, LMA, LFC); and a T-32 Arthritis and Immunology Training Grant (AEN). The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
J.M. Jordan, MD, MPH, Professor, Departments of Medicine, Orthopaedics, and Epidemiology, UNC Chapel Hill; C.G. Helmick, MD, Medical Epidemiologist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; J.B. Renner, MD, Professor, Departments of Radiology and Allied Health Sciences, UNC Chapel Hill; G. Luta, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, and Biomathematics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC; A.D. Dragomir, PhD, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD; J. Woodard, BS; F. Fang, MS; T.A. Schwartz, DrPH, Department of Biostatistics; A.E. Nelson, MD, Department of Medicine; L.M. Abbate, MSPH, Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology; L.F. Callahan, PhD, Departments of Medicine, Orthopaedics, Social Medicine, and Epidemiology; W.D. Kalsbeek, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, UNC Chapel Hill; M.C. Hochberg, MD, MPH, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland.
Address reprint requests to Dr. J.M. Jordan, Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB 7280, 3300 Thurston Building, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7280. E-mail:joanne_jordan@med.unc.edu
Accepted for publication December 17, 2008.