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Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 2017 May 26;47(2):380–390. doi: 10.1002/jmri.25766

Table 4.

Comparison of WORMS subscores of the knee between subjects with and without diabetes mellitus.

WORMS scores	Non-diabetes (n = 208)	Diabetes (n = 208)	P-value¹
Cartilage lesions
Global knee joint	4.54 [4.02, 5.05]	4.11 [3.48, 4.74]	0.20
PAT	2.42 [2.08, 2.75]	2.34 [2.01, 2.67]	0.68
MT	0.21 [0.10, 0.32]	0.16 [0.07, 0.25]	0.51
LT	0.67 [0.53, 0.82]	0.52 [0.37, 0.68]	0.14
MF	0.76 [0.60, 0.92]	0.65 [0.49, 0.80]	0.32
LF	0.48 [0.33, 0.63]	0.45 [0.29, 0.61]	0.72
Cartilage Max	2.81 [2.52, 3.09]	2.57 [2.26, 2.88]	0.17
Meniscus lesions
Bilateral menisci	1.79 [1.48, 2.11]	1.84 [1.53, 2.14]	0.83
Medial meniscus	0.64 [0.50, 0.79]	0.85 [0.70, 0.99]	0.05
Lateral meniscus	0.61 [0.44, 0.78]	0.62 [0.48, 0.76]	0.96
WORMS overall	7.77 [6.94, 8.60]	7.12 [6.13, 8.11]	0.24

Multivariable linear regression adjusting for race and cluster pair; Numbers are given as predicted mean values [95% confidence intervals] (ms); PAT, patella; MT, medial tibia; LT, lateral tibia; MF, medial femur; LF, lateral femur. Significant results (P-value <0.05) are in bold.