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Table 2 Knee osteoarthritis in participants with non-osteoarthritis and early knee osteoarthritis at the baseline and changes over 3 years

From: Effusion detected by ultrasonography and overweight may predict the risk of knee osteoarthritis in females with early knee osteoarthritis: a retrospective analysis of Iwaki cohort data

 

Male

Female

Total

 

Endpoint

 

Non-OA

EKOA

RKOA

Non-OA

EKOA

RKOA

Non-progressors

Radiographic progressors

p value

Baseline

 Non-OA

124 (75%)

4 (2%)

37 (23%)

100 (54%)

7 (4%)

77 (42%)

235 (68%)

114 (32%)

0.003

 EKOA

7 (41%)

3 (18%)

7 (41%)

11 (29%)

2 (5%)

25 (66%)

23 (42%)

32 (58%)

  1. Values represent the number of participants. Numbers in parentheses indicate percentages. The chi-squared test was used to compare the proportion of patients with knee OA progression between participants with and without knee OA.
  2. EKOA Early knee osteoarthritis, OA Osteoarthritis, RKOA Radiographic knee osteoarthritis
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