Journal article
Reduced rates of primary joint replacement for osteoarthritis in Italian and Greek migrants to Australia: the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study
Yuanyuan Wang, Julie A Simpson, Anita Wluka, Donna M Urquhart, Dallas R English, Graham G Giles, Stephen Graves, Flavia M Cicuttini
Arthritis Research & Therapy | BMC | Published : 2009
DOI: 10.1186/ar2721
Grants
Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
Funding Acknowledgements
The Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study recruitment was funded by VicHealth and The Cancer Council Victoria. This study was funded by a program grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) (209057), capacity building grant (251533), and enabling grant (396414) and was further supported by infrastructure provided by The Cancer Council Victoria. YW and AEW are the recipients of NHMRC Public Health (Australia) Fellowships (NHMRC 465142 and 317840, respectively). DMU is the recipient of an NHMRC Clinical Research Fellowship (NHMRC 284402). We would especially like to thank data manager Lisa Ingerson and statistician Nicole Pratt from the Australian Orthopaedic Association National Joint Replacement Registry and Georgina Marr from The Cancer Council Victoria.