Table 4 Appraisal of the evidence

From: Identification of clinical phenotypes in knee osteoarthritis: a systematic review of the literature

	Phenotypes
Author/year	Chronic pain	Inflammatory	Metabolic syndrome	Metabolic bone/cartilage	Mechanical overload	Minimal joint disease
Attur 2011 [18]		++
Bae 2010 [19]					++
Berry 2010a [20]				++
Berry 2010b [21]						++
Blumnenfeld 2013 [22]				++
Cruz-Almeida 2013 [23]	++
Doss 2007 [24]		++
Egsgaard 2015 [25]	+
Fernández-Tajes 2014 [26]		++
Holla 2013 [27]						++
Jenkins 2015 [28]						+
Kerkhof 2008 [29]
Kinds 2013 [9]						++
King 2013 [30]	+
Knoop 2011 [7]	++		++		++	++
Murphy 2011 [31]	++
Otterness 2000 [32]		++		++
Pereira 2013 [33]	++
Roemer 2012 [34]				++
Sowers 2002 [35]			++
Van der Esch 2015 [36]	++		++		++	++
Van Spil 2012 [37]		++	++
Waarsing 2015 [8]				++	++	++
Iijima 2015 [38]					+
Kittelson 2015 [40]	++
Total number of studies	6 (2)	5	4	5	4 (1)	6 (1)

+ high risk of bias, ++ low risk of bias
Total Number of Studies: low risk of bias (high risk of bias)

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