Table 2 Baseline characteristics of included studies
Studies | Country/ Region | Number of knees | Number of subjects | Healthy or arthritic | Mean age, years (SD/range) | Sex (n, %) | BMI (SD/range) | Study design | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Men | Women | ||||||||
MacDessi et al. [5] | Belgium | 500 | 250 | Healthy | 22 (20–27) | 125 (50.0%) | 125 (50.0%) | 22.0 (2.9) | Retrospective cross-sectional |
Australia | 500 | 500 | Arthritic | 66 (44–88) | 190 (38.0%) | 310 (62.0%) | NA | ||
Corban et al. [12] | Australia | 700 | 643 | Arthritic | 68.2 (7.9) | 305 (48.6%) | 395 (61.4%) | 29.7 (5.7) | Retrospective cohort |
Tarassoli et al. [35] | Australia | 88 | 76 | Arthritic | 68 (42–87) | 41 (53.9%) | 35 (46.1%) | NA | Retrospective |
Tarassoli et al. [34] | Australia | 465 | 394 | Arthritic | 69.4 (46–89) | 179 (45.4%) | 215 (54.6%) | 29.59 | Retrospective |
Hazratwala et al. [18] | Australia | 165 | 140 | Arthritic | 65.1 (8.3) | 63 (45.0%) | 77 (55.0%) | NA | Retrospective case series review |
Kim et al. [21] | Australia | 1124 | 1124 | Arthritic | NA | NA | NA | NA | Retrospective review |
Moore et al. [27] | Belgium | 500 | 250 | Healthy | 22 (20–27) | 125 (50.0%) | 125 (50.0%) | 22.0 (2.9) | retrospective case–control |
Australia | 710 | 355 | Arthritic | 70.2 (7.6) | 162 (45.6%) | 193 (54.4%) | 29.7 (4.8) | ||
Franceschetti et al. [14] | Italy | 180 | 180 | Arthritic | NA | 73 (40.6%) | 107 (59.4%) | NA | Retrospective cohort |
Dragosloveanu et al. [13] | Romania | 500 | 500 | Healthy | 36.0 (14.2) | 330 (66.0%) | 170 (34.0%) | 26.5 (4.2) | Observational cross-sectional |
Romania | 500 | 500 | Arthritic | 68.0 (7.2) | 125 (25.4%) | 375 (74.6%) | 30.8 (4.0) | ||
Huber et al. [20] | Austria | 8739 | 7456 | Arthritic | 69.0 (9.3) | 2502 (33.6%) | 4954 (66.4%) | 30.3 (5.6) | Retrospective |
León-Muñoz et al. [23] | Spain | 501 | 447 | Arthritic | 69.9 (6.3) | 159 (35.6%) | 288 (64.4%) | 29.8 (3.9) | Retrospective cross-sectional |
Sappey-Marinier et al. [31] | France | 1078 | 936 | Arthritic | 71.3 (8.0) | 780 (83.3%) | 156 (16.7%) | 29.2 (5.1) | Retrospective cohort |
Loddo et al. [26] | France | 1240 | 1240 | Healthy | 58.9 (14.5) | 658 (53.1%) | 582 (46.9%) | 25.9 (6.3) | Retrospective diagnostic |
Pangaud et al. [30] | France | 178 | 178 | Arthritic | 70.3 (7.1) | NA | NA | 29.6 (4.3) | Retrospective cohort |
Åženel et al. [32] | Turkey | 414 | 207 | Healthy | 32.9 (8.4) | 109 (52.7%) | 98 (47.3%) | NA | Retrospective cross-sectional |
Turkey | 408 | 296 | Arthritic | 54.5 (7.9) | 141 (47.6%) | 155 (52.4%) | NA | ||
Steele et al. [33] | USA | 1946 | 973 | Mixed | 61 (9.1) | 477 (49.0%) | 496 (51.0%) | 29.3 (19–44) | Retrospective cohort |
Grant et al. [16] | USA | 1166 | 1166 | Arthritic | NA | 520 (44.6%) | 646 (55.4%) | NA | Retrospective |
Morrisey et al. [28] | USA | 335 | 335 | Arthritic | 69.2 (8.1) | 135 (40.3%) | 200 (59.7%) | NA | Retrospective |
Hsu et al. [19] | China | 214 | 214 | Healthy | 41 (18.6) | 111 (51.9%) | 103 (48.1%) | NA | Retrospective cross-sectional |
Li et al. [24] | China | 944 | 479 | Arthritic | 67.6 (6.4) | 101 (21.1%) | 378 (78.9%) | 26.8 (3.4) | Retrospective |
Liu et al. [25] | China | 434 | 434 | Arthritic | 66.4 (9.3) | 93 (21.4%) | 341 (78.6%) | 25.5 (3.7) | Retrospective |
Gao et al. [15] | China | 214 | 107 | Healthy | 48.8 (14.4) | 41 (38.3%) | 66 (61.7%) | NA | Retrospective |
China | 477 | 246 | Arthritic | 65.3 (7.3) | 65 (26.4%) | 181 (73.6%) | NA | ||
Toyooka et al. [6] | Japan | 500 | 343 | Arthritic | 75.1 (8.0) | 95 (19.0%) | 405 (81.0%) | 26.2 (4.0) | Retrospective |
Nomoto et al. [7] | Japan | 248 | 248 | Arthritic | NA | 79 (31.9%) | 169 (68.1%) | NA | Retrospective cohort |
Harada et al. [17] | Japan | 300 | 300 | Arthritic | NA | 150 (50.0%) | 150 (50.0%) | NA | Retrospective cross-sectional |
Konishi et al. [22] | Japan | 284 | 231 | Arthritic | 74.0 (8.0) | 33 (14.3%) | 198 (85.7%) | 26.7 (4.4) | Retrospective cohort |
Mulpur et al. [29] | India | 500 | 250 | Healthy | 26.8 (4.5) | 109 (43.6%) | 141 (56.4%) | 25.8 (4.8) | Prospective cross-sectional |
India | 500 | 250 | Arthritic | 62.3 (8.2) | 76 (30.4%) | 174 (69.6%) | 28.2 (4.0) | ||
Yang et al. [36] | Korea Korea | 500 | 500 | Healthy | 23.8 (8.2) | 416 (82.2%) | 84 (16.8%) | 24.8 (8.9) | Retrospective cross-sectional |
500 | 500 | Arthritic | 75.0 (4.0) | 419 (83.8%) | 81 (16.2%) | 26.1 (4.0) | |||
Coetzee et al. [8] | South Africa | 608 | 344 | Arthritic | 68.4 (9.2) | 76 (22.1%) | 268 (77.9%) | NA | Retrospective cross-sectional |