A Longitudinal Study of the Reliability of Acupuncture Deqi Sensations in Knee Osteoarthritis

Table 1

Baseline characteristics.

Mean ± SD	All	High dose	Low dose	Sham
N	30	10	10	10
Gender	13 Females	2 Females	7 Females	4 Females
Age	57.5±8.3	60.1±8.9	58.30±8.6	54.1±7.3
Duration (treated knee, years)*	10.5±8.3	9.8±7.4	5.7±6.0	16.22±8.3
KOOS pain	55.94±14.10	58.61±12.99	53.09±9.39	56.11±19.15
KOOS symptoms	52.98±16.17	57.14±19.12	48.21±10.68	53.57±17.82
KOOS ADL	63.58±15.34	66.03±11.83	61.18±13.83	63.53±20.34
KOOS sport^†	29.48±22.92	30.00±18.11	31.16±19.06	28.50±30.92
KOOS QOL	38.75±15.25	41.88±16.94	38.13±13.96	36.25±15.81

Significant main effect of group (high versus low versus sham) indicated by *; ^†indicates 𝑁=29 due to one missing KOOS subscale score (low-dose group).