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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 2.

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

Characteristic Primary analysis Stratified analysis
Excluded
All n = 8127 Frequent worktime
sitting n = 1655
Infrequent worktime
sitting n = 4122
Not working n = 2330
KL grade at baseline
 KL 0 3241 (40%) 736 (44%) 1675 (41%) 824 (36%)
 KL 1 1512 (19%) 294 (18%)  770 (19%) 445 (19%)
 KL 2 2222 (27%) 446 (27%) 1131 (27%) 639 (27%)
 KL 3 1152 (14%) 179 (11%)  546 (13%) 422 (18%)

Note: Numbers (n = ) represent knees contributed by participants. Values are reported as n (%).

Abbreviation: KL, Kellgren-Lawrence.