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Purpose: The Applied Public-Private Research enabling OsteoArthritis Clinical Headway (APPROACH) consortium intends to prospectively describe in detail, preselected patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA), using conventional and novel clinical, imaging, and biochemical markers, to support OA drug development.Participants: APPROACH is a prospective cohort study including 297 patients with tibiofemoral OA, according to the American College of Rheumatology classification criteria. Patients were (pre)selected from existing cohorts using machine learning models, developed on data from the CHECK cohort, to display a high likelihood of radiographic joint space width (JSW) loss and/or knee pain progression.Findings to date: Selection appeared logistically feasible and baseline characteristics of the cohort demonstrated an OA population with more severe disease: age 66.5 (SD 7.1) vs 68.1 (7.7) years, min-JSW 2.5 (1.3) vs 2.1 (1.0) mm and Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score pain 31.3 (19.7) vs 17.7 (14.6), except for age, all: p<0.001, for selected versus excluded patients, respectively. Based on the selection model, this cohort has a predicted higher chance of progression.Future plans: Patients will visit the hospital again at 6, 12 and 24 months for physical examination, pain and general health questionnaires, collection of blood and urine, MRI scans, radiographs of knees and hands, CT scan of the knee, low radiation whole-body CT, HandScan, motion analysis and performance-based tests.After two years, data will show whether those patients with the highest probabilities for progression experienced disease progression as compared to those wit lower probabilities (model validation) and whether phenotypes/endotypes can be identified and predicted to facilitate targeted drug therapy.
Author(s): vanHelvoort EM, vanSpil WE, Jansen MP, Welsing PMJ, Kloppenburg M, Loef M, Blanco FJ, Haugen IK, Berenbaum F, Bacardit J, Ladel CH, Loughlin J, BayJensen AC, Mobasheri A, Larkin J, Boere J, Weinans HH, Lalande A, Marijnissen ACA, Lafeber FPJG
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: BMJ Open
Year: 2020
Volume: 10
Pages: e035101
Online publication date: 29/07/2020
Acceptance date: 06/05/2020
Date deposited: 30/07/2020
ISSN (electronic): 2044-6055
Publisher: B M J Group
URL: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-035101
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-035101
PubMed id: 32723735
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