The associations between body and knee height measurements and knee joint structure in an asymptomatic cohort

Table 2 The association between anthropometric height measures and tibial cartilage volume, defects and bone area

	Body height				Knee height				Knee height as percentage of body height
	Univariate	P	Multivariate	P	Univariate	P	Multivariate	P	Univariate	P	Multivariate	P
Bone area ¹
Medial	16 (11, 20)	<0.001	11 (4, 17)	0.001	44 (34, 54)	<0.001	37(23 52)	0.001	72 (32, 111)	0.001	50 (14, 87)	0.007
Lateral	12 (8, 17)	<0.001	6 (0, 12)	0.06	36 (25, 47)	<0.001	27 (11, 42)	0.001	65 (28, 103)	0.001	43 (7, 79)	0.002
Cartilage volume ¹
Medial	19 (14, 24)	<0.001	10 (4, 17)	0.001	51 (38, 64)	<0.001	27 (7, 48)	0.009	71 (21, 120)	0.006	11 (-33, 54)	0.63
Lateral	28 (21, 35)	<0.001	12 (3, 21)	0.009	79 (63, 93)	<0.001	42 (19, 65)	0.001	129 (62, 195)	<0.001	44 (-10, 98)	0.11
Cartilage defects ²
Medial	1.0 (0.9, 1.1)	0.31	1.0 (0.9, 1.1)	0.62	1.0 (0.9, 1.1)	0.97	0.9 (0.7, 1.1)	0.29	0.8 (0.5, 1.1)	0.17	0.6 (0.4, 1.0)	0.05
Lateral	1.0 (0.9, 1.1)	0.99	1.0 (0.9, 1.1)	0.86	1.0 (0.8, 1.2)	0.84	0.9 (0.7, 1.3)	0.59	1.1 (0.6, 1.9)	0.74	0.8 (0.4, 1.7)	0.55
MRI osteophytes ²	1 (0.9, 1.1)	0.63	1.1 (1.0, 1.2)	0.01	1.0 (0.9, 1.2)	0.53	1.2 (1.0, 1.5)	0.06	1.1 (0.8, 1.6)	0.58	1.0 (0.6, 1.5)	0.94

Bone area (mm²) adjusted for age, gender, weight, static knee angle and presence of tibiofemoral osteophytes (yes/no)
Cartilage volume (mm³) adjusted for age, gender, weight, respective bone area, static knee angle and presence of tibiofemoral osteophytes (yes/no)
Cartilage defects adjusted for age, gender, weight, respective cartilage volume, static knee angle and presence of tibiofemoral osteophytes (yes/no)
MRI osteophytes adjusted for age, gender and BMI.
¹Results expressed as beta coefficient of regression (95% confidence interval)
²Results expressed as odds ratio (95% confidence interval)

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