Osteoarthritis of the knee: multicompartmental or compartmental disease?
These findings suggest a multicompartmental disease process in the knee, characterized by associations among features across the entire joint, as well as compartmental disease processes in each knee compartment, characterized by associations among features within specific compartments. Longitudinal studies are needed to explore the possibility of the development from a compartmental disease to a multicompartmental disease and the impact of contributing factors on the development.
NIRS calibration equations developed in this study could be applied to the rapid analysis of the pinoresinol diglucoside content.