Table 5. Comparison of knee cartilage subregion T2* value between recreational runners and sedentary controls (mean ± SD).

Group	Recreational runners (ms)	Sedentary controls (ms)	Y value	P value
Femoral medial posterior	25.00±2.02	24.95±2.34	0.07	0.94
Femoral medial central	28.67±3.25	27.71±2.34	0.966	0.34
Femoral medial anterior	25.51±4.39	24.90±2.74	0.469	0.64
Femoral trochlear medial	24.54±4.18	25.21±2.80	−0.532	0.59
Femoral trochlear central	28.06±3.20	28.36±2.82	−0.283	0.77
Femoral trochlear lateral	27.98±2.68	31.09±3.62	−2.766	0.01
Femoral lateral posterior	23.84±2.73	24.72±2.40	−0.967	0.34
Femoral lateral central	27.78±2.95	27.07±3.27	0.647	0.52
Femoral lateral anterior	23.77±3.80	27.98±5.02	−2.669	0.01
Patellar lateral inferior	27.68±5.39	27.88±4.32	−0.114	0.91
Patellar lateral central	27.29±5.53	29.20±4.91	−1.033	0.31
Patellar lateral superior	26.58±3.59	28.13±3.01	−1.325	0.19
Patellar medial inferior	25.30±3.48	26.45±5.18	−0.736	0.46
Patellar medial central	24.36±5.51	26.33±5.21	−1.04	0.30
Patellar medial superior	22.84±3.67	23.68±2.61	−0.747	0.46
Tibial lateral posterior	26.24±4.12	23.23±3.12	2.335	0.02
Tibial lateral central	19.79±2.56	18.80±2.91	1.028	0.31
Tibial lateral anterior	20.28±5.17	22.61±7.16	−1.053	0.30
Tibial medial posterior	22.41±2.94	20.15±2.60	2.301	0.02
Tibial medial central	22.04±5.60	21.41±3.60	0.375	0.71
Tibial medial anterior	24.09±4.00	22.47±2.64	1.353	0.18

SD, standard deviation.