Research Article

A Randomized Controlled Exploratory Evaluation of Standardized Ayurvedic Formulations in Symptomatic Osteoarthritis Knees: A Government of India NMITLI Project

Table 5

Comparison of the change in the knee status of patients of symptomatic knee osteoarthritis treated with Ayurvedic “C” formulation (found to be most efficacious), placebo, and glucosamine at completion in a seven arm (5 Ayurvedic formulations) randomized controlled exploratory drug trial using a RIDIT (relative to identified distribution) analysis.

Comparison pairMean RIDIT“Z”

C versus placebo0.6522.185.029
C versus glucosamine0.6181.692.09

Knee status on study completion scored by patient using categorical outcome (see text for details).