The Clinical Significance of Changes in Serum New Cytokine CYTL1 in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis

Figures & data

Table 1 The Comparison of the General Characteristics Between the Two Groups

Group	n	Age (Year)	Gender (Female/Male)	BMI (kg/m^2)	CYTL1 (ng/mL)
KOA group	182	66.2±9.8	98/84	24.9±2.4	305.0±58.8
Control group	152	65.0±9.5	82/70	24.8±2.2	402.1±36.5
P		> 0.05	> 0.05	> 0.05	0.000

Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index; CYTL1, cytokine-like 1.

Table 2 The Serum Levels of CYTL1 in the Patients ()

	Grade II	Grade III	Grade IV
n	23	63	96
CYTL1 (ng/mL)	383.9±54.8	321.8±46.2	276.2±45.2

Figure 1 The negative correlation between the serum levels of CYTL1 and the KL grading in the OA group (r=−0.613, P<0.001).