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. 2024 Jun 19;7:1420210. doi: 10.3389/frai.2024.1420210

Table 3.

Risk bin descriptive statistics.

Variable Levels Risk bins P -values
One (n = 247) Two (n = 246) Three (n = 247) Four (n = 247) Omnibus One vs. two One vs. three One vs. four
Paygrade Officer 26.3% 6.9% 8.9% 10.1% 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.002
E5-E9 19.4% 16.7% 17.0% 21.1%
E1-E4 54.3% 76.4% 74.1% 68.8%
Occupation Combat arms 67.6% 32.9% 27.9% 19.8% 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001
Combat Service support 18.2% 29.3% 41.7% 48.2%
Combat support 14.2% 37.8% 30.4% 32.0%
Gender Male 99.6% 96.7% 78.5% 70.9% 0.001 0.668 < 0.001 < 0.001
Female 0.4% 3.3% 21.5% 29.1%
Marital status Single 79.4% 72.4% 59.9% 55.5% 0.001 1.00 < 0.001 < 0.001
Married 20.6% 27.6% 40.1% 44.5%
Race White 89.1% 80.5% 69.6% 53.4% 0.001 0.256 0.001 0.001
Asian or Pacific Islander 3.2% 8.1% 3.6% 6.5%
Black 6.5% 11.4% 24.7% 36.4%
American Indian or Alaskan native 0.8% – 1.6% 0.8%
Unknown 0.4% – 0.4% –
Other – – – 2.8%
Prior MSKI No 100.0% 98.4% 89.9% 50.2% 0.001 1.00 < 0.001 < 0.001
Yes – 1.6% 10.1% 49.8%
Nicotine use No 57.9% 67.5% 76.9% 71.3% 0.005 0.901 0.001 0.120
Yes 42.1% 32.5% 23.1% 28.7%
ACFT fail No 86.6% 85.0% 81.4% 76.1% 0.469 1.00 1.00 0.167
Yes 13.4% 15.0% 18.6% 23.9%
ACFT pain No 99.2% 96.3% 88.3% 57.9% 0.001 0.944 < 0.001 < 0.001
Yes 0.8% 3.7% 11.7% 42.1%
Surgery No 100.0% 99.2% 98.8% 89.1% 0.001 1.00 1.00 < 0.001
Yes – 0.8% 1.2% 10.9%
MSKI profile No 100.0% 99.2% 91.9% 54.3% 0.001 1.00 < 0.001 < 0.001
Yes – 0.8% 8.1% 45.7%
Stress fracture No 98.0% 93.9% 95.5% 82.2% 0.001 0.706 1.00 < 0.001
Yes 2.0% 6.1% 4.5% 17.8%
Movement pain 0 99.6% 98.4% 83.4% 35.6% 0.001 1.00 0.001 0.001
1 0.4% 1.6% 14.2% 36.8%
2 – – 2.0% 15.8%
3 – – 0.4% 11.7%
Age (years) 22.9 ± 4.5 23.1 ± 5.1 24.3 ± 5.1 25.6 ± 6.4 < 0.001 1.00 0.063 < 0.001
Mass (kg) 76.1 ± 10.3 78.7 ± 9.5 79.0 ± 12.4 78.0 ± 13.1 0.668 0.167 0.182 1.00
Height (cm) 176.8 ± 7.1 176.0 ± 7.9 174.5 ± 9.3 173.2 ± 9.4 0.001 1.00 0.112 < 0.001
Sleep (hours) 6.6 ± 0.9 6.6 ± 1.0 6.2 ± 1.0 6.0 ± 1.1 < 0.001 1.00 < 0.001 < 0.001

Descriptive statistics for each risk bin from the Cox proportional hazards regression model; categorical predictors are proportions (%) across the grouping feature, Fisher's exact test across risk bins; numeric features are means ± standard deviation, one-way ANOVA across risk bins; dashed line (–) denotes, “no value”.