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Determining individual trajectories of joint space loss: improved statistical methods for monitoring knee osteoarthritis disease progression

Determining individual trajectories of joint space loss: improved statistical methods for monitoring knee osteoarthritis disease progression
Determining individual trajectories of joint space loss: improved statistical methods for monitoring knee osteoarthritis disease progression
Objectives
Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) progression is frequently monitored by calculating the change in knee joint space width (JSW) measurements. Such differences are small and sensitive to measurement error. We aimed to assess the utility of two alternative statistical modelling methods for monitoring KOA.

Material and methods
We used JSW on radiographs from both the control arm of the Strontium Ranelate Efficacy in Knee Osteoarthritis trial (SEKOIA), a 3-year multicentre, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase three trial, and the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI), an open-access longitudinal dataset from the USA comprising participants followed over 8 years. Individual estimates of annualised change obtained from frequentist linear mixed effect (LME) and Bayesian hierarchical modelling, were compared with annualised crude change, and the association of these parameters with change in WOMAC pain was examined.

Results
Mean annualised JSW changes were comparable for all estimates, a reduction of around 0.14 mm/y in SEKOIA and 0.08 mm/y in OAI. The standard deviation (SD) of change estimates was lower with LME and Bayesian modelling than crude change (SEKOIA SD = 0.12, 0.12 and 0.21 respectively; OAI SD = 0.08, 0.08 and 0.11 respectively). Estimates from LME and Bayesian modelling were statistically significant predictors of change in pain in SEKOIA (LME P-value = 0.04, Bayes P-value = 0.04), while crude change did not predict change in pain (P-value = 0.10).

Conclusions
Implementation of LME or Bayesian modelling in clinical trials and epidemiological studies, would reduce sample sizes by enabling all study participants to be included in analysis regardless of incomplete follow up, and precision of change estimates would improve. They provide increased power to detect associations with other measures.
Longitudinal, Osteoarthritis, Progression
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Chapurlat, Roland
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Parsons, Camille, Judge, Andrew, Mayer, Renate, Bruyere, Olivier, Petit Dop, Florence, Chapurlat, Roland, Reginster, Jean-Yves, Cooper, Cyrus and Inskip, Hazel (2021) Determining individual trajectories of joint space loss: improved statistical methods for monitoring knee osteoarthritis disease progression. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 29 (1), 59-67. (doi:10.1016/j.joca.2020.09.009).

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Abstract

Objectives
Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) progression is frequently monitored by calculating the change in knee joint space width (JSW) measurements. Such differences are small and sensitive to measurement error. We aimed to assess the utility of two alternative statistical modelling methods for monitoring KOA.

Material and methods
We used JSW on radiographs from both the control arm of the Strontium Ranelate Efficacy in Knee Osteoarthritis trial (SEKOIA), a 3-year multicentre, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase three trial, and the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI), an open-access longitudinal dataset from the USA comprising participants followed over 8 years. Individual estimates of annualised change obtained from frequentist linear mixed effect (LME) and Bayesian hierarchical modelling, were compared with annualised crude change, and the association of these parameters with change in WOMAC pain was examined.

Results
Mean annualised JSW changes were comparable for all estimates, a reduction of around 0.14 mm/y in SEKOIA and 0.08 mm/y in OAI. The standard deviation (SD) of change estimates was lower with LME and Bayesian modelling than crude change (SEKOIA SD = 0.12, 0.12 and 0.21 respectively; OAI SD = 0.08, 0.08 and 0.11 respectively). Estimates from LME and Bayesian modelling were statistically significant predictors of change in pain in SEKOIA (LME P-value = 0.04, Bayes P-value = 0.04), while crude change did not predict change in pain (P-value = 0.10).

Conclusions
Implementation of LME or Bayesian modelling in clinical trials and epidemiological studies, would reduce sample sizes by enabling all study participants to be included in analysis regardless of incomplete follow up, and precision of change estimates would improve. They provide increased power to detect associations with other measures.

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Accepted/In Press date: 2 September 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 24 November 2020
Published date: January 2021
Additional Information: Funding Information: CP and RM has no conflicts of interest to report. Outside of the submitted work, AJ has recived consultancy fees from Freshfields Bruckhaus Derringer and Anthera Phramaceuticals LTD. Outside the submitted work, OB reports grants from Biophytis, IBSA, MEDA, Servier, and SMB, personal fees from Amgen, Aptissen, Biophytis, IBSA, MEDA, Sanofi, Servier, SMB, and UCB. Outside of the submitted work, J-YR reports consultanty fees from IBSA Genevrier, Mylan, Radius Health, and Pierre Fabre, grants from IBSA Genevrier, Mylan, CNIEL, and Radius Health, and payment for lectures from IBSA Genevrier, Mylan, CNIEL, Dairy Research Council (DRC). HMI salary is provided from the UK Medical Research Council, and outside of the submitted work HMI's institution has received grants from NIHR and the British Heart Foundation. FP-D salary if provided by Servier. Outside of the submitted work, CC reports personal fees from Alliance for Better Bone Health, Amgen, Eli Lilly, GSK, Medtronic, Merck, Novartis, Pfizer, Roche, Servier, Takeda and UCB. Outside of the submitted work, RC reports board membership and consultancy fees from Pfizer. Funding Information: We acknowledge the directors and personnel of the 98 investigating centres, all members of the SEKOIA management team (appendix 1) and the study participants. We would also like to express our gratitude to the participants of the OAI. The OAI is a public-private partnership comprised of five contracts ( NO1-AR-2-2258 , NO1-AR-2-2259 , NO1-AR-2-2260 , NO1-AR-2-2261 , NO1-AR-2-2262 ) funded by the National Institutes of Health , a branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in four clinical sites and conducted by the OAI study investigators. Work in part supported by a World Universities Network Research Mobility Programme Grant . Publisher Copyright: © 2020 Osteoarthritis Research Society International
Keywords: Longitudinal, Osteoarthritis, Progression

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Local EPrints ID: 445514
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/445514
ISSN: 1063-4584
PURE UUID: a704762e-f79c-4b77-9873-e086b81d3b8c
ORCID for Cyrus Cooper: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-3510-0709
ORCID for Hazel Inskip: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-8897-1749

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Author: Camille Parsons
Author: Andrew Judge
Author: Renate Mayer
Author: Olivier Bruyere
Author: Florence Petit Dop
Author: Roland Chapurlat
Author: Jean-Yves Reginster
Author: Cyrus Cooper ORCID iD
Author: Hazel Inskip ORCID iD

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