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Table 2 Association between IPFP area and radiographic osteoarthritis

From: Infrapatellar fat pad in the knee: is local fat good or bad for knee osteoarthritis?

 

Univariable

Multivariable*

 

Odds ratio (95% CI)

Odds ratio (95% CI)

Radiographic osteoarthritis

0.88 (0.79,0.99)

0.75(0.62, 0.91)

MTF joint space narrowing

0.87 (0.77,0.97)

0.75 (0.62, 0.91)

LTF joint space narrowing

0.99 (0.88,1.14)

0.77 (0.62, 0.96)

MTF osteophytes

0.87 (0.70,1.09)

0.52 (0.35,0.76)

LTF osteophytes

1.57 (1.19,2.07)

0.64 (0.38,1.08)

  1. *Adjusted for age, sex, height, weight, tibial bone size, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, and patellofemoral synovitis. IPFP, infrapatellar fat pad; MTF, medial tibiofemoral; LTF, lateral tibiofemoral. Significant differences are shown in bold.