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Worldwide Collaboration on OsteoArthritis prediCtion for the Hip (World COACH) - an international consortium of prospective cohort studies with individual participant data on hip osteoarthritis
Michiel M.A. van Buuren (Erasmus MC)
Harbeer Ahedi (University of Tasmania)
Vahid Arbabi (University Medical Center Utrecht, University of Birjand)
Nigel K. Arden (University of Oxford)
Flavia Cicuttini (Monash University)
Timothy F. Cootes (The University of Manchester)
Kay Crossley (La Trobe University)
David Felson (Boston University School of Medicine)
Stefan Kluzek (University of Oxford)
Nancy E. Lane (University of California Davis School of Medicine)
John A. Lynch (University of California)
Amanda E. Nelson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Harrie Weinans (TU Delft - Biomaterials & Tissue Biomechanics, University Medical Center Utrecht)
Rintje Agricola (Erasmus MC)
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Abstract
Purpose Hip osteoarthritis (OA) is a major cause of pain and disability worldwide. Lack of effective therapies may reflect poor knowledge on its aetiology and risk factors, and result in the management of end-stage hip OA with costly joint replacement. The Worldwide Collaboration on OsteoArthritis prediCtion for the Hip (World COACH) consortium was established to pool and harmonise individual participant data from prospective cohort studies. The consortium aims to better understand determinants and risk factors for the development and progression of hip OA, to optimise and automate methods for (imaging) analysis, and to develop a personalised prediction model for hip OA. Participants World COACH aimed to include participants of prospective cohort studies with ≥200 participants, that have hip imaging data available from at least 2 time points at least 4 years apart. All individual participant data, including clinical data, imaging (data), biochemical markers, questionnaires and genetic data, were collected and pooled into a single, individual-level database. Findings to date World COACH currently consists of 9 cohorts, with 38 021 participants aged 18–80 years at baseline. Overall, 71% of the participants were women and mean baseline age was 65.3±8.6 years. Over 34 000 participants had baseline pelvic radiographs available, and over 22 000 had an additional pelvic radiograph after 8–12 years of follow-up. Even longer radiographic follow-up (15–25 years) is available for over 6000 of these participants.
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