Relationship between Kellgren–Lawrence grading (KL), joint space width (JSW) and biochemical markers
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posted on 2011-12-31, 04:37 authored by Masaaki Takahashi, Kenichi Naito, Masashi Abe, Tomokazu Sawada, Akira NaganoCopyright information:
Taken from "Relationship between radiographic grading of osteoarthritis and the biochemical markers for arthritis in knee osteoarthritis"
Arthritis Research & Therapy 2004;6(3):R208-R212.
Published online 12 Mar 2004
PMCID:PMC416443.
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Pyridinoline (Pyr) level is expressed as nmol/mmol creatinine. There were significant relationships between joint space width (= 0.003), pyridinoline (= 0.034) and TIMP-1 (= 0.017) determined with the Kruskal–Wallis test. Bars indicate maximum and minimum values within the observation range. values are shown in each panel; N.S. indicates not significant. CRP, C-reactive protein; MMP, matrix metalloproteinase; TIMP, tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases.