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Published in final edited form as: J Orthop Res. 2014 Jul 1;32(10):1349–1355. doi: 10.1002/jor.22671

Table 5.

Comorbidities, concomitant medications, OA indicators, and KOOS scores that weakly correlated (R2 of 0.30 to 0.70) with the concentration of anti-inflammatory cytokines in APS.

	Metric
Weakly Positively Correlated with > 1 Anti-inflammatory Cytokine	Hypertension, Age
Weakly Negatively Correlated with > 1 Anti-inflammatory Cytokine	None
Weakly Positively Correlated with > 1 Inflammatory Cytokine	None
Weakly Negatively Correlated with > 1 Inflammatory Cytokine	Hypertension
Weakly Positively Correlated with > 1 Anabolic Growth Factor	KOOS FSR
Weakly Negatively Correlated with > 1 Anabolic Growth Factor	Proton Pump Inhibitors
% of Metrics Weakly Correlated with Cytokine or Growth Factor Concentration	6.1%
% of Metrics Strongly Correlated with Cytokine or Growth Factor Concentration	0%