Table 1.

Clinical baseline characteristics of patients with fracture healing

Parameters	Normal fracture healing (n = 82)	Delayed fracture healing (n = 90)	P value
Age (year)	45.52 ± 12.91	46.58 ± 19.30	0.678
BMI (kg/m 2 )	23.44 ± 3.22	24.53 ± 5.38	0.113
Gender
Female	43	50	0.760
Male	39	40
Smoking
No	37	33	0.280
Yes	45	57
Drinking
No	46	48	0.760
Yes	36	42
Fracture side
Left	41	36	0.220
Right	41	54
Mechanism of injury
Traffic injury	35	23
Ground fall	26	34	0.053
Sports injury	21	33
Severity of fracture
Complete fracture	41	40	0.541
Incomplete fracture	41	50
Osteosynthesis method
Open reduction	34	44	0.360
Losed reduction	48	46

Annotation: BMI, body mass index