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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Musculoskeletal Care. 2023 May 30;21(4):1075–1084. doi: 10.1002/msc.1786

TABLE 1.

Characteristics of participants included in each analysis as well as those excluded from the stratified analysis.

Characteristic Primary analysis Stratified analysis
Excluded
All n = 4254 Frequent worktime
sitting n = 863
Infrequent worktime
sitting n = 2142
Not working n = 1238
Age (years) 61.1 ± 9.1 59.1 ± 8.8 59.3 ± 8.9 65.5 ± 8.3
BMI (kg/m2) 28.6 ± 4.8 28.6 ± 4.9 28.4 ± 4.8 28.6 ± 4.8
Sex (female) 2459 (58%) 452 (53%) 1257 (59%) 741 (60%)
Leisure-time walking (>1 h/day) 1869 (44%) 353 (41%) 964 (45%) 546 (44%)
Leisure-time sitting
 ≤4 h/day 2853 (67%) 506 (59%) 1525 (71%) 812 (66%)
 ≥4 h/day 1401 (33%) 357 (41%) 617 (29%) 426 (34%)

Note: Numbers (n=) represent participants, not knees contributed by those participants. Values are reported as either mean ± SD or n (%).