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Table 1 Demographic and baseline characteristics in patients with knee osteoarthritis

From: Safety and efficacy of curcumin versus diclofenac in knee osteoarthritis: a randomized open-label parallel-arm study

Patient characteristic

Curcumin

(N = 70)

Diclofenac

(N = 69)

Age, years

53.09 ± 4.17

52.14 ± 3.76

Gender, male/female

45/25

48/21

Weight, kg

61.37 ± 5.46

63.51 ± 5.19

Duration of knee osteoarthritis, months

7.40 ± 3.53

7.45 ± 3.15

Baseline pain intensity on visual analogue scale

7.84 ± 0.63

7.81 ± 0.73

  1. Values are expressed in mean ± standard deviation except for gender variable (presented as number of patients in each category). Visual analogue scale is from 0 to 10, where 0 indicates “No pain” and 10 indicates “Worst possible pain”