Table 1

Baseline demographic, clinical and radiographic characteristics of patients for cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses

Cross-sectional,
n=869
Longitudinal,
n=307
p Value
Age (years), mean±SD64.0±763.8±7.10.56
Sex0.94
 Women, n (%)622 (72)213 (69)
  Menopause489 (78)166 (54.1)0.50
 Men, n (%)247 (28)86 (28)
BMI (kg/m2), mean±SD29.6±4.729.5±50.55
 BMI<30, n (%)502 (58)172(56)
 BMI≥30, n (%)366 (42)127 (41)
Comorbidities, n (%)
 Diabetes82 (9)30 (10)0.91
 Hypertension413 (48)135 (44)0.28
 Dyslipidaemia245 (28)89 (29)0.82
 Coronary heart disease81 (9)35 (11)0.32
 Stroke16 (2)7 (2)0.63
 Depression81 (9)30 (10)0.82
Alcohol consumption, n (%)
 No422 (49)135 (44)
 Previous use16 (2)6 (2)
 Yes431 (50)158 (51)0.57
Tobacco use, n (%)
 No567 (65)188 (61)
 Previous use222 (26)86 (28)
 Yes80 (9)25 (8)0.53
Clinical variables
FIHOA
  0–30, median [Q1, Q3]2.0 [0.0–7.0]2.0 [0.0–7.0]0.90
 ≥5+pain, n (%)126 (26)45 (15)0.83
AUSCAN, median [Q1, Q3]
 Overall (0–300)77.3 [23.4–156]77.5 [18.7–158]0.90
 Pain (0–100)25 [5.6–54.6]26.4 [4.8–55.8]0.84
 Stiffness (0–100)20 [4–54]20 [4–56]0.81
 Function (0–100)25.9 [7.2–52.2]25.4 [5.9–53.9]0.76
Radiographic variables
 KL hand score (0–128), median [Q1, Q3]18 [12–27]17 [12–28]0.75
 Number of erosive joints (phase E or R, Verbruggen score), median [Q1, Q3]2 [1–4]1 [1–3]0.45
 KL knee grade 2, n (%)532 (61)194(63)0.47
 KL knee grade 3, n (%)336 (39)105 (24)
  • AUSCAN, AUStralian-CANadian; BMI, body mass index; FIHOA, Functional Index for Hand Osteoarthritis; KL, Kellgren-Lawrence; Q1, Q3, quartile 1, quartile 3.