Table 1 Characteristics of included samples by OA.

From: Association between serum high-sensitivity C-reactive protein levels and osteoarthritis in adults from NHANES 2015 to 2018

Variables

Total

(n = 9948)

Non-OA

(n = 8752)

OA

(n = 1196)

P

Gender

   

< 0.001

Male

4775 (48.00)

4356 (49.77)

419 (35.03)

 

Female

5173 (52.00)

4396 (50.23)

777 (64.97)

 

Age (y)

   

< 0.001

>20, 40

3179 (31.96)

3119 (35.64)

60 (5.02)

 

>40,60

3236 (32.53)

2888 (33.00)

348 (29.10)

 

>60

3533 (35.51)

2745 (31.36)

788 (65.89)

 

Race

   

< 0.001

Mexican American

1569 (15.77)

1460 (16.68)

109 (9.11)

 

Other Hispanic

1145 (11.51)

1049 (11.99)

96 (8.03)

 

Non-Hispanic White

3390 (34.08)

2754 (31.47)

636 (53.18)

 

Non-Hispanic Black

2131 (21.42)

1933 (22.09)

198 (16.56)

 

Non-Hispanic Asian

1281 (12.88)

1205 (13.77)

76 (6.35)

 

Other Race - Including Multi-Racia

432 (4.34)

351 (4.01)

81 (6.77)

 

Hypertension status

   

< 0.001

Yes

4290 (43.12)

3674 (41.98)

616 (51.51)

 

No

5658 (56.88)

5078 (58.02)

580 (48.49)

 

Drinking status

   

< 0.001

Heavy

3059 (30.75)

2790 (31.88)

269 (22.49)

 

Moderate

3148 (31.64)

2715 (31.02)

433 (36.20)

 

None

3741 (37.61)

3247 (37.10)

494 (41.30)

 

Activity status

   

< 0.001

Heavy

3952 (39.73)

3632 (41.50)

320 (26.76)

 

Moderate

2806 (28.21)

2408 (27.51)

398 (33.28)

 

Insufficient

603 (6.06)

537 (6.14)

66 (5.52)

 

Sedentary

2587 (26.01)

2175 (24.85)

412 (34.45)

 

Smoke status

   

< 0.001

Yes

4178 (42.00)

3574 (40.84)

604 (50.50)

 

No

5770 (58.00)

5178 (59.16)

592 (49.50)

 

HSCRP (mg/L)

4.21 ± 8.00

4.08 ± 7.67

5.18 ± 10.04

< 0.001

Vitamin D (nmol/L)

67.07 ± 30.36

5.11 ± 28.96

81.43 ± 36.016

< 0.001

White blood cell count

(x 103 cells/uL)

7.37 ± 4.72

7.37 ± 4.94

7.44 ± 2.59

0.618

  1. % for Categorical variable, means ± SD for Normally distributed continuous variables.
  2. P value was calculated by the t-test or χ2 test and one-way analysis of variance.