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Commentary

Comments on the discordant recommendations for the use of symptomatic slow-acting drugs in knee osteoarthritis

Jean-Yves ReginsterSupport Unit in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Public Health, Epidemiology and Health Economics, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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Cyrus CooperMRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK;NIHR Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Marc HochbergDivision of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, MD, USA;Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, Maryland VA Health Care System, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Jean-Pierre PelletierOsteoarthritis Research Unit, University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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René RizzoliService of Bone Diseases, Geneva University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland
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John KanisWHO Collaborating Centre for Metabolic Bone Diseases, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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Eric AbadieDivision of Cardiology, Ambroise Paré Hospital, Paris, France
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Emmanuel MaheuRheumatology Department, St. Antoine Hospital, Paris, France
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Maria Luisa BrandiDepartment of Surgery and Translational Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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Jean-Pierre DevogelaerDepartment of Rheumatology, Saint-Luc University Hospital, Catholic University, Louvain, Belgium
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Jaime BrancoCEDOC, Department of Rheumatology, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa/CHLO, EPE – Hospital Egas Moniz, Lisbon, Portugal
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Gabriel Herrero-BeaumontBone and Joint Research Unit, Fundación Jiménez Diaz, Madrid, Spain
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Pieter D’HoogheDepartment of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, Aspetar Hospital, Doha, Qatar
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Olivier BruyèreSupport Unit in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Public Health, Epidemiology and Health Economics, University of Liège, Liège, BelgiumCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 1041-1045 | Accepted 03 Mar 2015, Published online: 24 Mar 2015

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