Work overview

Section 07 of 11

Ethics statement

Analysis of disease burden of osteoarthritis in China from 1990 to 2021 and projections for 2022–2044

Binni Yang, Zhe Wang, Wantian Feng, and Chen Gao · 2026

Contents

Section 07 of 11

  1. 01Introduction
  2. 02Materials and methods
  3. 03Results
  4. 04Discussion
  5. 05Limitations
  6. 06Data availability statement
  7. 07Ethics statement
  8. 08Author's contributions
  9. 09Generative AI statement
  10. 10Funding
  11. 11Conflict of interest
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Work overview

Section 7 of 11

Ethics statement

Binni Yang, Zhe Wang, Wantian Feng, and Chen Gao · about 1 minutes

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The studies involving humans were approved by the Ethics Committee of the 940th Hospital of Joint Logistics Support Force of Chinese People's Liberation Army. The studies were conducted in accordance with the local legislation and institutional requirements. Written informed consent for participation was not required from the participants or the participants' legal guardians/next of kin because this study solely extracted population public health-related data from open databases for statistical analysis and trend projection, no personally identifiable images or data are included in this study. Since the entire research process does not involve any intervention measures targeting human subjects, informed consent is not required.