Characterization of hyaluronan-coated extracellular vesicles in synovial fluid of patients with osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis

Table 1 General characteristics of the sampled knee surgery patients (mean ± SE)

Group	Control	RA	OA	p
Gender	4 M, 3F	3 M, 5F	1 M, 7F	0.226
Age	33 ± 4^A	71 ± 3^B	67 ± 2^B	0.001
Body weight	79.8 ± 6.7	70.9 ± 6.9	86.4 ± 6.3	0.277
BMI	26.8 ± 2.1	25.3 ± 1.8	32.2 ± 2.2	0.084

RA rheumatoid arthritis, OA osteoarthritis, M male, F female, BMI body mass index; sex ratios were tested with the Fisher's exact test, means with dissimilar superscript letters indicate significant differences between the study groups within a row, those with similar superscript letters are not significantly different from each other (Kruskal–Wallis ANOVA)

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