Meniscal extrusion promotes knee osteoarthritis structural progression: protective effect of strontium ranelate treatment in a phase III clinical trial.

Arthritis Res Ther · 2015 · PMC4407552 · PMID 25888851

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a numerical trendP = 0.12not close (p > 0.1)

In multivariate analysis adjusted as described above, a numerical trend ( P = 0.12) toward more cartilage volume loss in the medial compartment in Ext+ patients was found with statistical significance at the medial femur ( P = 0.053) (data not shown).

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did not quite reach statistical significanceno p-value reported

Moreover, although SrRan 2 g/day markedly decreased (by about 66%) the cartilage volume loss in the medial plateau, the difference did not quite reach statistical significance but yielded a numerical trend ( P = 0.081, Table 6 ), probably due to the relatively small number of patients in each group.

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