Patterns of Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnosis in Thermal Laser Acupuncture Treatment of Knee Osteoarthritis

Table 1

Baseline patient characteristics.

	Group A. Yang deficiency	Group B. Non-yang deficiency
	(𝑛=25)	(𝑛=26)
Age (years)	62.36	63.04
Gender (F/M)	20/5	14/12*
Affected knees (bilateral/single)	16/9	18/8
Durations (year)	8.08	7.46

^∗𝑃<0.05. There was no difference at baseline in group characteristics except for gender. There were more female patients in Group A.