Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2015 Apr 30;23(9):1595–1604. doi: 10.1016/j.joca.2015.04.023

Table 4.

Cartilage T2 values (in ms) and mean gray level co-occurence matrix (GLCM) parameters

Parameter Subjects
p-value
African American
n = 100		 Caucasian American
n = 100
Mean cartilage T2* 32.03 [31.71–32.35] 32.86 [32.49–33.22] <0.001
 LF T2 33.61 [33.16–34.06] 34.54 [34.10 –34.98] 0.001
 LT T2 27.77 [27.32–28.21] 28.52 [27.99–29.05] 0.019
 MF T2 36.92 [36.44–37.40] 38.02 [37.49–38.54] <0.001
 MT T2 28.92 [28.55–29.28] 29.77 [29.35–30.19] 0.001
 PAT T2 32.94 [32.44–33.44] 33.43 [32.92–33.94] 0.147
Mean Variance* 203.49 [196.80–210.18] 215.78 [208.40–223.37] 0. 001
 LF Variance 191.60 [184.13–199.07] 200.39 [192.07–208.70] 0.051
 LT Variance 144.51 [137.87–151.17] 161.55 [152.75–170.34] 0.001
 MF Variance 257.22 [246.56–267.88] 281.09 [269.41–292.77] <0.001
 MT Variance 197.92 [187.84–208.01] 205.21 [195.03–215.39] 0.259
 PAT Variance 226.21 [214.91–237.50] 230.65 [219.74–241.57] 0.533

LF Lateral Femur; LT Lateral Tibia; MF Medial Tibia; MT Medial Tibia; PAT Patella

*

Global knee joint

p-values < 0.05 are in bold.

Data are given as means and [95% confidence intervals ]