Background
Methods
Participants
OA | Control |
P-value | ||||||
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Male (n = 45) | Female (n = 55) | Male (n = 18) | Female (n = 25) | OA male and female | Control male and female | Control and OA male | Control and OA female | |
Age (years) | 55.18 (7.54) | 55.33 (7.26) | 54.83 (10.33) | 52.12 (9.39) | 0.92 | 0.38 | 0.88 | 0.10 |
Height (cm) | 177.28 (7.53) | 164.12 (6.92) | 178.31 (4.90) | 163.84 (8.19) |
<0.01
|
<0.01
| 0.60 | 0.87 |
Weight (kg) | 88.75 (14.12) | 73.97 (15.00) | 83.51 (13.45) | 64.18 (12.20) |
<0.01
|
<0.01
| 0.18 |
<0.01
|
BMI (m2/kg) | 28.29 (4.67) | 27.42 (5.14) | 26.22 (3.58) | 23.85 (3.57) | 0.38 |
0.04
| 0.10 |
<0.01
|
Speed (m/s) | 1.134 (0.05) | 1.146 (0.03) | 1.156 (0.05) | 1.159 (0.02) | 0.08 | 0.76 | 0.10 | 0.05 |
Inclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria
Ethics, consent and permissions
Data collection
Data processing
Data analysis
Results
Anthropometrics
Kinematic differences based on the statistical criteria
Joint | Plane of motion | Variable of interest | Mean angle (and its standard deviation) [deg] | Significant and meaningful difference: effect size d
| ||||||
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OA male (OM) | OA female (OF) | Control male (CM) | Control female (CF) | Gender - OA (OM vs. OF) | Gender - Control (CM vs. CF) | Disease - Male (OM vs. CM) | Disease - Female (OF vs. CF) | |||
Knee | Frontal | At touchdown | −1.37 (3.80) | −4.88 (4.06) | −2.02 (2.96) | −5.75 (2.91) |
0.89* |
1.27* | 0.19 | 0.20 |
Maximum peak during swing | −1.24 (3.86) | −4.66 (4.16) | −1.77 (2.89) | −5.20 (3.07) |
0.85* |
1.15* | 0.16 | 0.15 | ||
Hip | Frontal | Maximum peak during stance | 4.86 (3.73) | 7.67 (3.21) | 5.41 (1.94) | 8.69 (2.61) |
0.81* |
1.43* | 0.19 | 0.35 |