Table 3.

Correlation coefficients and p-values between clinical variables and tracer uptake in the hip joint. NaF uptake was positively correlated with body mass index (BMI), leptin, and total fat and inversely correlated with sclerostin. FDG uptake was inversely correlated with DAS28-CRP and VAS-PtGlobal.

Hip Joint	FDG SUVmean		NaF SUVmean
	R-Value	p-Value	R-Value	p-Value
Age	0.066	0.796	−0.381	0.131
Weight	−0.051	0.840	0.412	0.101
Height	−0.001	0.998	−0.256	0.322
BMI	−0.096	0.703	0.548	0.023
Leptin	−0.038	0.122	0.61	0.009
Sclerostin	0.077	0.762	−0.583	0.014
Total Fat	−0.120	0.635	0.504	0.039
CRP	0.318	0.198	0.368	0.147
ESR	0.340	0.181	0.091	0.739
IL-1	0.337	0.172	−0.026	0.922
IL-6	0.299	0.229	−0.094	0.721
DAS28-CRP	−0.529	0.024	0.083	0.752
VAS-PtGlobal	−0.755	<0.001	−0.096	0.713