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A longitudinal study of osteoarthritis of the hand: the effect of age

J. Busby Applied Physiology Section, Laboratory of Clinical Physiology of the Gerontology Research Center, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, USA
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J. Tobin Departments of Medicine, Francis Scott Key Medical Center and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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W. Ettinger Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
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K. Roadarmel Applied Physiology Section, Laboratory of Clinical Physiology of the Gerontology Research Center, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, USA
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C.C. Plato Departments of Medicine, Francis Scott Key Medical Center and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Pages 417-424 | Received 08 May 1989, Published online: 09 Jul 2009

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