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First qualification study of serum biomarkers as indicators of total body burden of osteoarthritis.
PloS one - 17 Mar 2010
Kraus Virginia B, Kepler Thomas B, Stabler Thomas, Renner Jordan, Jordan Joanne
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a debilitating chronic multijoint disease of global proportions. OA presence and severity is usually documented by x-ray imaging but whole body imaging is impractical due to radiation exposure, time and cost. Systemic (serum or urine) biomarkers offer a potential alternative method of quantifying total body burden of disease but no OA-related biomarker has ever been stringently...
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