Knee Pain as the Reason for Encounter in General Practice

Table 3

Significantly associated results of encounter (%) found among knee pain patients (𝑛 = 127 with knee pain) compared to other patients (𝑛 = 8,750) within the German SESAM 2 study.

Result of encounter	Patients with knee pain	Other patients	P (Fisher)
Osteoarthritis of the knee	44.9	8.6	<0.001
Other musculoskeletal diseases	33.9	1.1	<0.001
Overweight	12.6	6.9	0.021
Rheumatic polyarthritis	9.4	2.4	<0.001
Acute injuries	8.7	3.3	0.004
Atherosclerosis	2.4	0.6	0.042
Malformations/deformities	0.8	0.0	0.042