Efficacy of Piroxicam Mesotherapy in Treatment of Knee Osteoarthritis: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Table 1

Baseline characteristics of patients.

	Mesotherapy group	Oral therapy group	value
Sex	F^a: 29 (93.5%); M^b: 2 (6.5%)	F: 25 (80.6%); M: 6 (19.4%)	0.09
Age, mean ± SD^c	56.87 ± 9.14	53.45 ± 8.63	0.66
BMI^d (kg/m^2), mean ± SD	27.61 ± 5.08	28.3 ± 4.66	0.15

^aF, female; ^bM, male; ^cSD, standard deviation; ^dBMI, body mass index.