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Table 4 Patient and physician reported outcome measures

From: The relationship between clinical phenotype and kallikrein-kinin bioregulation in different forms of arthritis

 

Study Group

Group Comparisonsa

OA

Gout

RA

OA vs. Gout

OA vs. RA

Gout vs. RA

Number of available data (n)

25

8

7

   

Joint effusion

 Not at all

8 (32.0%)

1 (12.5%)

0 (0.0%)

0.001

 < 0.001

0.506

 Minimal

14 (56.0%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

 Moderate

3 (12.0%)

6 (75.0%)

5 (71.4%)

 Severe

0 (0.0%)

1 (12.5%)

2 (28.6%)

Patient assessment of knee pain (mm)

67.5 (56.5–77.0)

82.0 (70.5–96.5)

71.5 (53.0–88.0)

0.229

0.688

0.62

Patient global assessment (mm)

67.5 (48.0–78.0)

71.5 (43.5–83.0)

73.5 (46.0–79.5)

0.686

0.686

1.00

Early morning stiffness (minutes)

10.0 (5.0–30.0)

20.0 (0.0–40.0)

37.5 (5.0–60.0)

0.26

0.429

0.61

Physician global assessment of severity (mm)

51.5 (43.0–61.0)

50.0 (43.5–67.0)

53.5 (49.0–80.0)

0.686

0.686

1.00

  1. Data presented as number of subjects (percentages) or as median (interquartile range)
  2. a P-values were calculated using the Fisher’s Exact test or Mann-Whitney U test