Biochemical markers identify influences on bone and cartilage degradation in osteoarthritis--the effect of sex, Kellgren-Lawrence (KL) score, body mass index (BMI), oral salmon calcitonin (sCT) treatment and diurnal variation.

BMC Musculoskelet Disord · 2010 · PMC2902412 · PMID 20565725

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weakly significantp = 0.02actually significant

In the placebo group a weakly significant correlation between changes in both markers was found on day 1 (r = 0.49, p = 0.02), but not on day 14.

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of borderline significancep = 0.06so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

While the baseline urine CTX-II levels in women were slightly higher than in men, the difference was of borderline significance ( p = 0.06).

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