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. 2021 Sep 21;55(5):1101–1110. doi: 10.1007/s43465-021-00517-z

Table 1.

Patient baseline characteristics before and after propensity score matching

All patient Matched patient
UKA (N = 29,560) HTO (N = 61,145) p value SMD UKA (N = 23,563) HTO (N = 23,563) SMD
Age (mean (sd)) 63.81 (8.39) 56.53 (7.60)  < 0.001 0.909 61.24 (7.06) 61.20 (6.93) 0.006
Sex (%)  < 0.001 0.178 0.023
 Female 24,184 (81.8) 45,536 (74.5) 18,785 (79.7) 19,003 (80.6)
 Male 5376 (18.2) 15,609 (25.5) 4778 (20.3) 4560 (19.4)
Hypertension (%) 18,073 (61.1) 27,304 (44.7)  < 0.001 0.335 13,054 (55.4) 13,293 (56.4) 0.02
Hyperlipidemia (%) 17,082 (57.8) 31,128 (50.9)  < 0.001 0.138 13,054 (55.4) 13,349 (56.7) 0.025
Peripheral vascular disease (%) 9147 (30.9) 13,823 (22.6)  < 0.001 0.189 6615 (28.1) 6545 (27.8) 0.007
Diabetes_with out complication (%) 9768 (33.0) 14,446 (23.6)  < 0.001 0.21 7003 (29.7) 6816 (28.9) 0.017
Diabetes_with complication (%) 4066 (13.8) 5407 ( 8.8)  < 0.001 0.156 2833 (11.4) 2680 (11.4) 0.02
Osteoporosis (%) 12,812 (43.3) 15,987 (26.1)  < 0.001 0.367 4314 (18.3) 4279 (18.2) 0.004
Depression (%) 5694 (19.3) 9971 (16.3)  < 0.001 0.077 8790 (37.3) 8864 (37.6) 0.006
Dementia (%) 1116 ( 3.8) 873 ( 1.4)  < 0.001 0.148 548 (2.3) 574 (2.4) 0.007
Type of insurance (%) 0.206 0.009 0.017
 Health insurance 28,442 (96.2) 58,937 (96.4) 22,645 (96.1) 22,721 (96.4)
 Medical benefits 1118 (3.8) 2208 (3.6) 918 ( 3.9) 842 ( 3.6)
City of residence (%)  < 0.001 0.170 0.017
 Over 10milion 10,452 (35.4) 17,025 (27.8) 7726 (32.8) 7579 (32.2)
 Over 1milion 6733 (22.8) 16,889 (27.6) 5617 (23.8) 5574 (23.7)
 Others 12,375 (41.9) 27,231 (44.5) 10,220 (43.4) 10,410 (44.2)
Type of hospital (%)  < 0.001 0.105 0.025
 Teaching hospital 2757 (9.3) 6656 (10.9) 2307 ( 9.8) 2222 ( 9.4)
 General hospital 6427 (21.7) 10,934 (17.9) 5005 (21.2) 4826 (20.5)
 Independent hospital 19,225 (65.0) 40,912 (66.9) 15,278 (64.8) 15,541 (66.0)
 Private clinic 1151 (3.9) 2643 (4.3) 973 ( 4.1) 974 ( 4.1)
CCI (%)  < 0.001 0.246 0.036
 0 1636 (5.5) 5621 (9.2) 1500 ( 6.4) 1439 ( 6.1)
 1 3935 (13.3) 10,953 (17.9) 3586 (15.2) 3383 (14.4)
 2 5538 (18.7) 13,369 (21.9) 4794 (20.3) 4649 (19.7)
 ≥ 3 18,451 (62.4) 31,202 (51.0) 13,683 (58.1) 14,092 (59.8)

UKA unicompartmental knee arthroplasty, HTO high tibial osteotomy, SMD standardised mean difference, CCI Charlson comorbidity index