. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Mar 1.

Published in final edited form as: Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2020 Mar;52(3):535–541. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000002161

Table 3.

Comparison of patient and injury characteristics between the 2 clusters.^*

	Dysregulated Inflammation Cluster	Low Inflammation Cluster	p
Demographics

Age (y)	21.4 ± 5.1	18.7 ± 3.9	0.15
Sex (F/M; %F)	5/5 (50%)	10/15 (40%)	0.71
BMI (kg/m²)	25.3 ± 4.1	23.4 ± 2.6	0.18

Injury Characteristics

*Days after injury*	*5.6* ± *1.3*	*3.8* ± *2.2*	*0.02*
Aspirate volume (cc)	34.2 ± 25.8	22.0 ± 16.4	0.10
Bone bruise volume (mm³)	14.6 ± 19.6	8.3 ± 7.7	0.18
VAS Pain	3.4 ± 3.1	5.5 ± 2.9	0.08
Medial meniscus tear	5/10 (50%)	20/25 (80%)	0.11
Lateral meniscus tear	7/10 (70%)	16/25 (64%)	> 0.99
Articular cartilage lesion	1/10 (10%)	0/25 (0%)	0.29

Bold, italics denotes statistically significant differences between patient clusters