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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 10.
Published in final edited form as: J Rheumatol. 2010 Feb 15;37(4):842–850. doi: 10.3899/jrheum.090302

Table 1.

Characteristics of study sample, including participants with hip and/or knee radiographs.

Total Sample, (n = 2729) Men (n = 933) Women (n = 1796)
Mean age (SD), yrs 63.6 (10.5) 63.3 (9.6) 63.8 (10.8)
N (%) African American 885 (33.1) 269 (29.3) 616 (35.0)
Mean BMI (SD) 30.7 (3.7) 29.8 (5.6) 31.1 (7.2)
Smoking
 N (%) current smokers 437 (17.0) 194 (22.6) 243 (14.3)
 N (%) former smokers 706 (27.6) 326 (37.9) 380 (22.3)
N (%) with prior hip injury 85 (3.2) 36 (4.0) 49 (2.8)
N (%) with prior knee injury 278 (10.6) 109 (11.9) 169 (9.8)
N (%) with radiographic knee OA* 927 (34.5) 317 (34.2) 610 (34.7)
N (%) with symptomatic knee OA** 592 (22.5) 189 (20.6) 403 (23.4)
N (%) with radiographic hip OA 847 (33.2) 303 (33.3) 544 (33.6)
N (%) with symptomatic hip OA†† 294 (11.7) 92 (10.2) 202 (12.6)
*

From 2686 participants with knee radiographs.

**

From 2637 participants with knee radiographs and data on knee symptoms.

From 2530 participants with hip radiographs.

††

From 2506 participants with hip radiographs and data on hip symptoms. BMI: body mass index; OA: osteoarthritis.