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. 2011 Sep 21;2011:486512. doi: 10.5402/2011/486512

Table 1.

Incidence of slipped capital femoral epiphysis*.

Study Year City, Country Region Ethnicity Incidence
Kelsey et al. [37] 1970 Connecticut and New Mexico All: <25 years old
Connecticut 3.41
New Mexico 0.71
Connecticut and New Mexico All age restricted
Connecticut 10.08
New Mexico 2.13
Connecticut White
Male 4.74
North America Female 1.64
African
Male 7.79
Female 6.68
White
Urban 3.19
Other 3.19
African
Urban 7.95
Other 1.35

Benson et al. [32] 2008 New Mexico North America All 6.05
White 2.59
Hispanic 5.49
Native American 5.49
African 11.57

Lehmann et al. [31] 2006 United States North America All 10.80
Male 13.35
Female 8.07
White 6.24
Hispanic 15.80
Native American 5.13
African 24.58
Asian/Pacific Islanders 10.11
Northeast 17.15
Midwest 7.69
South 8.12
West 12.70

Larson et al. [39] 2010 Minnesota North America All 8.8

Jerre et al. [42] 1996 Gothenburg, Sweden Scandinavia All 7.1
Male 9.0
Female 5.1

Henrikson [43] 1969 Gothenburg, Sweden Scandinavia All 8.2

Hägglund et al. [34] 1984 Southern Sweden Scandinavia All
Male 7.1
Female 5.3
Rural
Male 7.5
Female 2.2
Urban
Male 4.8
Female 3.8

Murray and Wilson [40] 2008 Scotland Europe All
1981 3.78
2000 9.66

Noguchi and Sakamaki [38] 2002 Japan Asia All 1.51
Male 2.22
Female 0.76

Lim et al. [33] 2008 Singapore Asia All 1.2

Ninomiya et al. [36] 1976 Japan Asia All 0.25

Song et al. [44] 2009 Korea Asia All 0.33
Male 0.50
Female 0.14

the overall breakdowns by gender and race (unrestricted) are given as incidence per 100,000 for all <25 years of age, while the other numbers are for boys 10–17 years old and girls 8–15 years old.

*incidence for children 8–15 years of age.