Diabetes mellitus does not negatively impact outcomes and satisfaction following unicompartmental knee arthroplasty in well-controlled disease.

This is likely not clinically relevant as (i) the absolute difference in scores between the two groups was very small (less than 5) in Knee Society Knee Score (Postoperative Knee Society Knee Score for DM group = 90 ± 10, non-DM group = 86 ± 14, p = 0.019), (ii) scores of 17 and 19 are both considered excellent in the grading for OKS (OKS scores for DM group = 19 ± 7, non-DM group = 17 ± 5, p = 0.019), and (iii) the difference in the proportion of patients achieving MCID with the OKS did not reach statistical significance (DM group = 90%, non-DM group = 96%).

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