Research Article

Gender-Specific Response in Pain and Function to Biologic Treatment of Knee Osteoarthritis: A Gender-Bias-Mitigated, Observational, Intention-to-Treat Study at Two Years

Table 4

The mean VAS and OKS at preoperative and 2-year postoperative time points, prior to and post gender bias mitigation. The full density distributions are displayed in Figures 1 and 2.

GenderPreoperative VAS2-year VASPreoperative OKS2-year OKS
BeforeAfterBeforeAfterBeforeAfterBeforeAfter

Female4949282827273636
Male4141343132323738

Source: authors’ data and reproducible statistical analysis with Open Access statistical software R (version 4.0.0 or higher).