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Table 3.

Association Between Gender and Using Treatment Approaches Among People with Radiographically Confirmed Knee Osteoarthritis

				Sociodemographic adjusted^a	Sociodemographic and clinical characteristic adjusted^b
Treatment use	Women(n=1,563) (%)	Men(n=1,116) (%)	Crude	Odds ratio of women relative to men (95% confidence interval)
CAM only	23.9	21.9	1.47 (1.20-1.81)	1.57 (1.27-1.93)	1.86 (1.47-2.34)
Conventional medications only	16.8	16.0	1.41 (1.13-1.78)	1.25 (0.98-1.58)	1.37 (1.04-1.79)
Both CAM and conventional medications	27.3	19.2	1.92 (1.56-2.36)	1.90 (1.53-2.35)	2.21 (1.72-2.84)
Neither	32.0	43.0	Reference group of outcome variable

^{^a}

Adjusted for age, race/ethnicity, and education.

^{^b}

Adjusted for sociodemographic variables (age, race/ethnicity, education), body mass index (25≤BMI≤29 kg/m² defined as overweight, 30≤BMI≤34 kg/m² as obese, and ≥35 kg/m² as morbidly obese with referent group of BMI<25 kg/m²); depression (CES-D score>16 as depressed with referent group of CES-D≤16); SF-12 physical scale, WOMAC pain scale, KOOS quality of Life, history of knee injury or surgery, hip replacement, multijoint symptoms, chair stands, and OARSI grade.