Table 1.

Patients’ demographic data

	All patients (n = 30) (mean and SD)	Female patients (n = 20) (mean and SD)	Male patients (n = 10) (mean and SD)
Age (in years)	70.4 ± 9.9	74.3 ± 6.9	62.5 ± 10.6
Height (in cm)	166.7 ± 7.7	162. 8 ± 4.9	174.6 ± 6.3
Weight (in Kg)	82.0 ± 11.3	79.8 ± 10.4	86.4 ± 12.4
BMI	29.5 ± 3.7	30.1 ± 3.7	28.3 ± 3.7
Knee Society Score
Knee Score	52.4 ± 11.6	51.7 ± 12.8	53.7 ± 9.0
Knee Society Function Score	44.0 ± 12.2	43.8 ± 14.3	44.5 ± 6.9
Degree of cartilage damage
CD med.	3.5 ± 0.7	3.4 ± 0.7	3.7 ± 0.6
CD sm med.	3.3 ± 0.7	3.3 ± 0.8	3.3 ± 0.6
CD lat.	2.3 ± 0.8	2.3 ± 0.9	2.3 ± 0.8
CD sm lat.	1.8 ± 0.6	1.7 ± 0.8	2.0 ± 0.5

Legend: CD cartilage damage according to Yulish et al., sm submeniscal, med medial, lat lateral