Table 3.

Change in cartilage thickness over the entire subchondral bone area (ThCtAB) over 1 year for participants with Kellgren–Lawrence (K-L) grade 0, 2, 3 and 4

	K-L grade 0 (n = 17)			K-L grade 2 (n = 56)			K-L grade 3 (n = 47)			K-L grade 4 (n = 7)
	MC%	SRM	p Value	MC%	SRM	p Value	MC%	SRM	p Value	MC%	SRM	p Value
MT	−0.70	−0.33	0.19	−0.58	−0.18	0.19	−0.58	−0.14	0.35	−0.13	−0.07	0.85
cMF	−1.12	−0.43	0.10	−1.82	−0.29	0.04*	−4.04	−0.51	0.001*	4.46	0.34	0.40
MFTC	−0.92	−0.46	0.07	−1.23	−0.30	0.03*	−2.24	−0.46	0.003*	2.07	0.33	0.42
LT	0.07	0.03	0.89	−0.80	−0.27	0.047*	−1.26	−0.37	0.01*	0.29	0.16	0.68
cLF	−0.16	−0.07	0.79	−0.19	−0.05	0.72	0.08	0.02	0.90	2.15	0.43	0.30
LFTC	−0.03	−0.02	0.92	−0.50	−0.18	0.18	−0.58	−0.19	0.20	1.28	0.42	0.31

^*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.

For abbreviations see table 1.