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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Oct 6.
Published in final edited form as: Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2008 Nov 30;17(6):766–771. doi: 10.1016/j.joca.2008.11.015

Table V. Risk for knee OA progression according to homocysteine tertile in women (n = 330 knees).

Low tertile Middle tertile High tertile P value for trend
Total n 69 104 130
Progression OA 16 27 36
Crude OR (95% CI) 1.0 (1.0) 1.5 (0.7–3.4) 1.7 (0.8–3.8)
Adjusted OR (95% CI)* 1.0 (1.0) 1.5 (0.7–3.5) 1.7 (0.8–3.8) 0.226
*

For the Adjusted OR, confounding variables were controlled in manner identical to that described in Table II.