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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Oct 5.
Published in final edited form as: Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2008 Oct 17;17(5):592–595. doi: 10.1016/j.joca.2008.10.002

Table II.

Joint mobility measured as the single highest degree of passive dorsiflexion in two fingers on each hand (HYP°)

Males (n = 163) (%) Females (n = 221) (%) P
HYP ≥ 70 13 41 <0.001
 Left* 12 38
 Right* 4 20
HYP ≥ 90 2 17 <0.001
 Left* 2 16
 Right* 0 4
Mean HYP° (SD) 43 (17.9) 61 (19.9) <0.001
 Left* 41 (18.3) 59 (20.6)
 Right* 34 (15.1) 49 (18.1)
*

P < 0.001 for the three left vs right comparisons.