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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Orthop Trauma. 2015 Jan;29(1):e12–e17. doi: 10.1097/BOT.0000000000000132

Table 3.

Crude and Adjusted Risk Ratios and 95% CIs for obesity and physeal fracture by long bone type

RR (95% CI) Adjusted RR (95%
CI)
P-value**
Long bone type
  Femur 2.52 (1.26–5.05) 3.25 (1.35–7.78) 0.0082
  Tibia 2.15 (1.10–4.20) 1.58 (0.76–3.26) 0.2179
  Combined 2.16 (1.30–3.59) 2.20 (1.25–3.89) 0.0065
Proximal-distal
  Femur 2.08 (1.35–3.20) 2.17 (1.30–3.60) 0.0107
  Tibia 2.15 (1.36–3.39) 1.38 (0.89–2.14) 0.1007
  Combined 2.16 (1.58–2.95) 2.03 (1.41–2.94) 0.0002
*

Physeal includes all epiphyseal fractures with the exception of ligament avulsions and tibial spine fractures

Adjusted model includes Height for age 90% (yes/no), age, and ISS