Five-Year Impact of Weight Loss on Knee Pain and Quality of Life in Obese Patients

20 January 2025 : Clinical Research

Mehmet Cenk Belibağlı

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DOI: 10.12659/MSM.946550

Med Sci Monit 2025; 31:e946550

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Table 2 Correlations between the variables.

		Age	EQ-5D	WOMAC	VAS	Weight	BMI	Change in BMI (%)
Age	r	1	−.31	.28	.28	−.11	−.04	−.62
Age			.003	.008	.008	.297	.973	0
EQ-5D	r			−.68	−.71	−.27	−.42	.19
EQ-5D				<0.001	<0.001	.012	<0.001	.07
WOMAC	r				.85	.41	.56	−.17
WOMAC					<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	.108
VAS	r					.23	.43	−.19
VAS						.032	<0.001	.065
Weight	r						−.75	.09
Weight							<0.001	.38
BMI	r							−.06
BMI								.736
Change in BMI (%)	r							1
Change in BMI (%)
BMI – body mass ındex; EQ-5D – EuroQOL 5-dimension questionnaire; WOMAC – Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Arthritis Index; VAS – visual analog scale.

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