. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Mar 1.

Published in final edited form as: Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2017 Dec 16;26(3):422–432. doi: 10.1016/j.joca.2017.12.004

Table 1.

Characteristics of study patients

	Meniscus tear patients (N = 12)	End-stage OA patients (N = 12)	P value
Age, mean ± SD, years	49.17 ± 10.25	65.25 ± 7.94	0.0003^*
BMI, mean ± SD, kg/m2	26.90 ± 3.91	36.27 ± 6.61	0.0005^*
Female/Male N (%)	5/7 (42/58)	9/3 (75/25)	0.214^#
Kellgren-Lawrence Score, mean ± SD	0.00 ± 0.00	3.66 ± 0.49	<0.0001^$

SD = Standard Deviation

Unpaired t-test

Fisher’s Exact test*

Non-parametric Mann-Whitney U test