Walking ability during daily life in patients with osteoarthritis of the knee or the hip and lumbar spinal stenosis: a cross sectional study

Table 2 Data for walking ability in patients and controls

	Knee OA (n = 30) MD, IQR	p-value vs CON	Hip OA (n = 30) MD, IQR	p-value vs. CON	LSS (n = 30) MD, IQR	p-value vs CON	CON (n = 30) MD, IQR	p-value knee-hip	p-value knee-LSS	p-value hip-LSS
GC/day	4675, 2575	0.001	3994, 2640	0.001	3564, 1839	0.001	6119, 2234	0.67	0.03	0.112
GC/hour	405, 206	0.007	317, 211	0.004	271, 150	0.001	450, 157	0.575	0.02	0.127
High Int. (%)	0.8, 1.6	0.001	1.0, 4.9	0.001	0.1, 1.0	0.001	3.5, 4.1	0.450	0.007	0.005
Min > 50	2.5, 4.4	0.001	3.4, 16.1	0.006	0.4, 2.8	0.001	15.8, 15.6	0.670	0.005	0.003

GC = Gait cycles, Int = Intensity, LSS = Lumbar Spinal Stenosis, CON = Control group, MD = Median, IQR = Inter Quartile Range,
Min > 50 = minutes per day spend above 50 gait cycles per minute

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