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Table 1 Characteristics of patients with hip and/or knee osteoarthritis who attended baseline assessments (n = 30)

From: The AktiWeb study: feasibility of a web-based exercise program delivered by a patient organisation to patients with hip and/or knee osteoarthritis

Demographics

 Age, years, mean (SD)

63.3 (9.5)

 Female, n (%)

21 (70.0)

 Body mass index, kg/m2, mean (SD)

30.4 (6.7)

 Living arrangement, living alone, n (%) a

11 (38)

 Education level, ≥ 1 year of college/university, n (%)

19 (63)

 Non-smokers, n (%)

29 (97)

 Working full time, n (%)

13 (43)

Clinical characteristics

 Pain (NRS, 0–10, 0 = no pain), median (IQR)

5.0 (3.0, 6.3)

 Disease activity (NRS, 0–10, 0 = no disease activity), median (IQR)

5.0 (3.8, 7.0)

Most troublesome joint, n (%)

 Knee (right or left)

26 (87)

 Hip (right or left)

4 (13)

Total number of troublesome joints (range 0–9), n (%)

 1 to 4 joints

25 (83)

 5–9 joints

5 (17)

Number of co-morbid conditions (range 0–15), n (%)b

 No co-morbid conditions

10 (33)

 One co-morbid condition

14 (47)

 2 to 4 co-morbid conditions

6 (20)

  1. an = 29 due to missing data
  2. bData based on the question: Is your health currently affected by one or more of these medical problems (each answered by yes/no): high blood pressure, angina/infarction/other cardiac disease, asthma/bronchitis/other pulmonary disease, allergy/rhinitis/eczema/, sciatica, cerebral haemorrhage/cerebral stroke, cancer disease, neurological disease (in brain- or nerve tissue), diabetes, metabolic disease, mental/psychological disease, kidney disease, liver disease, ulcer or other stomach disease, anaemia or other blood disease