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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2009 Jun 26;17(12):1562–1569. doi: 10.1016/j.joca.2009.06.006

Table 2.

Participant Characteristics

Number of participants 160

Age (mean(SD)) 61 ± 9.9

BMI (mean(SD)) 30.3 ± 4.7

Sex 50% female

Race
 White 132/160 (82.5%)
 Black/African American 25/160 (15.6%)
 Other 3/160 (1.9%)

WOMAC Pain Composite Score (mean(SD)) [possible range 0–20] 5.2 ± 3.9

Prevalence of Weight-bearing Knee Pain 86/160 (53.8%)
Prevalence of Non-weight-bearing Knee Pain 44/160 (27.5%)

Maximal Bone Marrow Lesion Scores
 0 14/160 (8.8%)
 1 47/160 (29.3%)
 2 36/160 (22.5%)
 3 63/160 (39.4%)

Effusion Scores
 0 26/160 (16.3%)
 1 62/160 (38.7%)
 2 55/160 (34.4%)
 3 17/160 (10.6%)

Synovitis Scores
 0 7/160 (4.4%)
 1 79/160 (49.4%)
 2 54/160 (33.7%)
 3 20/160 (12.5%)