Table 2.

Change in cartilage thickness over the entire subchondral bone area (ThCtAB) over 1 year for participants without and with frequent symptoms of the right knee, and without (Kellgren–Lawrence (K-L) grade = 0 or 1) and with radiographic osteoarthritis of the right knee (K-L grade = 2, 3 and 4)

	No freq. symp. (n = 48)			Freq. symp. (n = 108)			No ROA (n = 46)			ROA (n = 110)
	MC%	SRM	p Value	MC%	SRM	p Value	MC%	SRM	p Value	MC%	SRM	p Value
MT	−1.17	−0.45	0.003*	−0.25	−0.07	0.452	−0.45	−0.23	0.13	−0.55	−0.15	0.11
cMF	−1.50	−0.37	0.02*	−2.11	−0.30	0.003*	−0.97	−0.35	0.02*	−2.35	−0.32	0.001*
MFTC	−1.34	−0.47	0.002*	−1.18	−0.27	0.006*	−0.72	−0.36	0.02*	−1.45	−0.32	0.001*
LT	−0.70	−0.25	0.08	−0.66	−0.22	0.03*	−0.11	−0.04	0.77	−0.93	−0.30	0.002*
cLF	0.59	0.17	0.23	−0.12	−0.03	0.77	0.15	0.05	0.76	0.07	0.02	0.86
LFTC	−0.09	−0.04	0.81	−0.39	−0.14	0.15	0.01	0.00	0.98	−0.43	−0.15	0.12

^*p Values <0.05 for paired t test between baseline and 1 year, without correcting for multiple testing, showing that the rate of loss was significantly different from zero.

Freq., frequent; ROA, radiographic osteoartritis; Symp, symptoms; for other abbreviations see the footnotes of table 1.