Table 1.

Information about the patients enrolled into study.

Patient No.	Sex	Age	Nationality	Smoking Status	Drug Therapy	Classes of Medicaments	Recommended Procedure for Surgery	Degree of Radiographic Changes in the Knee 3	Current Laboratory Data: CRP 4/BSG 5	Earlier Surgery Procedures	BMI 6	VAS 7	Pain
012	F 1	76	Swiss	non	Pantozol, Pravastatin, Torasemid, Triatec	1, 5, 3, 4	TKA 2	4	8.3/18	Meniscus	27.5	8	high
013	F	64	Italian	non	Co-Aprovel	5	TKA	4	8.5/50	non	31.8	3	low
014	F	74	Swiss	non	non	non	TKA	4	1.2/20	Meniscus	23.4	0	low
015	F	75	Swiss	non	Lithium	6	TKA	4	0.5/12	non	23.7	1	low
016	F	62	Swiss	non	Metoprolol, Sirdalud, Femeston, Pantozol	2, 10, 7, 1	TKA	3	4.6/14	non	23.2	9	high
017	F	70	German	non	Fludex	3	TKA	4	-/-	non	43.7	8	high
018	F	78	Swiss	non	Atenolol, Co-Epril, Madopar, Metformin, Simcora, Tiatral, Zanidip, Tramadol	2, 4, 6, 8, 5, 10	TKA	4	7.7/22	non	35.5	7	high
019	F	67	Swiss	non	Tilur, Zolpidem	10, 6	TKA	4	1.1/7	non	25.4	8	high
021	F	65	Swiss	non	Aspirin, Surmontil	10, 6	TKA	4	5.4/17	Arthroscopy	32	0–3.5 8	low
022	F	77	Italian	non	Aspirin, Calcimagon, Magnesium, Pantozol, Pemzek	10, 9, 1, 4	TKA	4	9.2/29	non	34.2	2	low

Classes of medicaments: (1) proton pump inhibitors, (2) β-blockers, (3) diuretics, (4) Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, (5) drugs decreasing cholesterol blood level, (6) medicaments against psychiatric disorders, (7) hormonal replacement therapy, (8) diabetes, (9) drugs against osteoporosis, (10) pain killers; β-blockers, diuretics, ACE inhibitors and ZANIDIP (unclassified) are all against high blood pressure or heart disease. ¹ F: female, ² TKA: Total Knee Arthroplasty, ³ according to Kellgren and Lawrence system grade [15], ⁴ CRP: C–Reactive Protein, ⁵ BSG: Blood Sedimentation Rate, ⁶ BMI: Body Mass Index, ⁷ VAS: Visual Analog Scale, ⁸ patient with VAS at rest 0 and under loading with 3.5.