{"id":3749,"date":"2018-02-22T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/tarc\/johnston-county-osteoarthritis-project-profiled-in-arthritis-today\/"},"modified":"2018-08-09T09:43:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T13:43:09","slug":"johnston-county-osteoarthritis-project-profiled-in-arthritis-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/tarc\/johnston-county-osteoarthritis-project-profiled-in-arthritis-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project Profiled in Arthritis Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"lead\">For over 25 years, the Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project in NC has been one of the premier longitudinal research studies world-wide regarding the causes and implications of osteoarthritis. Long term research studies can be challenging to maintain, as it takes considerable dedication from participants to remain involved over a period of years. That\u2019s one reason why this study \u2014 which has yielded over 200 publications \u2014 is so unique, and was recently profiled by Arthritis Today. Read on to learn about the research team that continues to achieve important insights from this study, as they work closely with participants from the local community.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-section\">\n<figure class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/tarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/802\/2018\/07\/johnston-county-osteoarthritis-project-profiled-in-arthritis-today-image2-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"image2\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/tarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/802\/2018\/07\/johnston-county-osteoarthritis-project-profiled-in-arthritis-today-image2-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/tarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/802\/2018\/07\/johnston-county-osteoarthritis-project-profiled-in-arthritis-today-image2-150x100.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/tarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/802\/2018\/07\/johnston-county-osteoarthritis-project-profiled-in-arthritis-today-image2-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/tarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/802\/2018\/07\/johnston-county-osteoarthritis-project-profiled-in-arthritis-today-image2-1024x683.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>You can learn more about study via <a class=\"internal-link\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/tarc\/research\/clinical-and-epidemiological-science-1\/johnston-county-osteoarthritis-project\/\" target=\"_self\">this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!-- description --> <\/p>\n<p class='lead'>For over 25 years, the Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project in NC has been one of the premier longitudinal research studies world-wide regarding the causes and implications of osteoarthritis.  Long term research studies can be challenging to maintain, as it takes considerable dedication from participants to remain involved over a period of years.  That&#8217;s one reason why this study &#8212; which has yielded over 200 publications &#8212; is so unique, and was recently profiled by Arthritis Today.  Read on to learn about the research team that continues to achieve important insights from this study, as they work closely with participants from the local community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58060,"featured_media":3750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project Profiled in Arthritis Today | Thurston Arthritis Research Center<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/tarc\/johnston-county-osteoarthritis-project-profiled-in-arthritis-today\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project Profiled in Arthritis Today | Thurston Arthritis Research Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"For over 25 years, the Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project in NC has been one of the premier longitudinal research studies world-wide regarding the causes and implications of osteoarthritis. 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