IMPORTANT NOTICE: MOST Online/UCSF is no longer involved in public sharing of MOST Public Use Limited Datasets and/or Images, due to the end of funding and closeout of MOST.
MOST public use data sets are available through the NIA Aging Research Biobank, a web-based platform for sharing biospecimens and data with investigators in the research community. If you are interested in requesting MOST public use data and/or biospecimens, please visit the NIA Aging Research Biobank website for more information. Note: MOST images will be available through the NIA Aging Research Biobank in 2023.
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The Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study (MOST) is a prospective observational study of risk factors for the development and progression of knee osteoarthritis and knee pain.
MOST is a nationwide research study, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health / National Institute on Aging (part of the Department of Health & Human Services), that will help us better understand how to prevent and treat knee osteoarthritis, one of the most common causes of disability in adults. MOST is a collaborative effort developed by investigators at four core sites and funded by NIH/NIA grants: U01 AG18820 (David Felson, Boston University); U01 AG18947 (Cora E. Lewis, University of Alabama at Birmingham); U01 AG18832 (James Torner, University of Iowa); U01 AG19069 (Michael Nevitt, University of California, San Francisco).