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. 2011 Sep 5;2011:504393. doi: 10.5402/2011/504393

Table 2.

Demographics of 4166 children with Legg-Calvé-Perthes' disease.

Study Year City, country Region Race No Pts Age (yrs) M (%) F (%) Unil (%) Bil (%) R (%) L (%)
Rosenfeld et al. [29] 2007 Dallas, TX North America 172 4.6 156 (90.7) 16 (9.3)
Catterall [1] 1971 London, England British Isles White 121 4.66 96 (79.3) 25 (20.7) 109 (90.1) 12 (9.9)
Gray et al. [12] 1972 British Columbia, Canada North America White 379 5 322 (85.0) 57 (15.0) 317 (84.1) 60 (15.9) 150 (47.3) 167 (52.7)
Kealey et al. [19] 2000 Northern Ireland British Isles White 313 5.7 256 (81.8) 57 (18.2) 264 (84.3) 49 (15.7)
Moberg and Rehnberg [16] 1992 Uppsala, Sweden Scandinavia White 51 5.75 38 (74.5) 13 (25.5) 45 (88.2) 6 (11.8)
Hall et al. [21] 1983 Liverpool, England British Isles White 157 5.8 133 (84.7) 24 (15.3)
Wiig et al. [30] 2008 Norway Scandinavia White 425 5.8 324 (76.2) 101 (23.8) 370 (87.1) 55 (12.9) 167 (45.4) 201 (54.6)
Fulford et al. [31] 1993 Edinburgh, Scotland British Isles White 94 5.8 85 (90) 9 (10) 89 (95) 5 (5)
Fisher [28] 1972 Connecticut North America White 203 6 153 (81.4) 35 (18.6) 163 (86.7) 25 (913.3) 83 (50.9) 80 (49.1)
Rowe et al. [9] 2005 Chonnam province, Korea Asia Indo-Malay (Korean) 84 6 79 (94) 5 (6) 46 (52) 43 (48)
Pillai et al. [20] 2005 Dumfries, Scotland British Isles White 40 6.5 31 (78) 9 (22)
Guille et al. [32] 1998 Wilmington, DE North America 575 6.9 470 (81.7) 105 (18.3) 497 (86.4) 78 (13.6)
Wang et al. [33] 1990 Taipei, Taiwan Asia Indo-Malay (Chinese) 57 7 47 (83) 10 (17) 52 (91) 5 (9) 21 (40) 31 (60)
Kim et al. [7] 2006 All Japan Asia Indo-Malay (Japanese) 711 7.08 606 (86.4) 95 (13.6) 656 (92.3) 55 (7.7) 281 (43.0) 327 (57.0)
Petrie and Bitenic [34] 1971 Montreal, Quebec North America White 60 7.75 49 (82) 11 (18) 41 (84) 8 (16)
Herring et al. [35] 2004 All USA North America 345 8 271 (80.4) 66 (19.6) 317 (91.9) 28 (8.1) 162 (47.0) 183 (53.0)
Joseph et al. [5] 1988 Karnataka and Vellore, India Asia Indo-Med (Indian) 138 9.4 97 (70.3) 41 (29.7)
Chacko et al. [36] 1986 Karnataka, India Asia Indo-Med (Indian) 165 9.6 119 (72.1) 46 (27.9) 155 (93.9) 10 (6.1) 92 (54.9) 63 (40.6)
Wijesekera [10] 1984 Kurunegala, Sri Lanka (Ceylon) Asia Indo-Med (Sri Lankan) 76 9.3 52 (68) 24 (32) 74 (97) 2 (3) 40 (53) 34 (47)

All 6.5 4237 (81.4) 969 (18.6) 4039 (89.2) 491 (10.8) 1227 (46.5) 1410 (53.5)
Averages Non-Indian 6.3
Indian 9.5