Table 3.

Multivariate logistic regression ^a

Variable	Group
	‘Minor tear’			‘Major tear’
	OR	95% CI	P value	OR	95% CI	P value
Gender
Female	Referent			Referent
Male	1.37	0.51–3.67	0.530	7.38	1.97–27.61	0.003b
Age (years)	0.94	0.89–1.00	0.057	0.96	0.87–1.06	0.405
Age groups (years)
<30	1.812	0.92–3.58	0.098	5.85	1.71–19.94	0.005b
>30	Referent			Referent
Height (cm)	1.00	0.96–1.03	0.701	1.18	0.85–1.66	0.327
Weight (kg)	1.08	0.86–1.35	0.534	0.98	0.91–1.05	0.483
BMI (kg/m2)	0.95	0.83–1.08	0.438	1.02	0.91–1.15	0.735
BMI groups (kg/m2)
<24.9	Referent			Referent
25–29.9	0.32	0.07–1.42	0.134	1.49	0.03–4.38	0.837
>30	0.46	0.09–2.25	0.336	1.41	0.07–2.83	0.824
Type of injury
High-impact sports	1.49	0.63–3.48	0.362	0.61	0.16–2.31	0.466
Low-impact sports	1.12	0.30–4.18	0.865	0.57	0.08–4.00	0.572
Not sports related	Referent			Referent
Mechanism of injury
Non-contact	Referent			Referent
Contact	4.28	1.74–10.56	0.002b	18.49	5.96–57.37	<0.001b

^aThe reference group was ‘no tear.’

^bStatistically significant.