Table 1.
Association between ASD diagnosis and the frequency of hip and upper limbs fractures in patients 3–22 years old
| ED visits for patients with ASD diagnosis Weighted n (% or SE of mean) |
ED visits for patients without ASD diagnosis Weighted n (% or SE of mean) |
Weighted X2 or t test |
Weighted OR (95 % CI) |
p value | Weighted and age adjusted OR (95 % CI) |
p value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ED visits | 82,615 (0.29 %) | 28,379,587 (99.71 %) | |||||
| Males | 66,628 (80.6 %) | 13,132,986 (46.3 %) | |||||
| Females | 15,987 (19.4 %) | 15,246,601 (53.7 %) | 7,636.8 | 0.21 (0.20–0.22) | <0.0001 | 0.23 (0.22–0.24) | <0.0001 |
| Age (years) | 11.29 (0.13) | 13.90 (0.09) | 162.8 | <0.0001 | |||
| Hip fractures | 43 (0.052 %) | 4,466 (0.016 %) | 15.8 | 3.33 (1.77–6.28) | <0.0001 | 3.46 (1.84–6.52) | 0.0001 |
| Malesa | 33 (0.050 %) | 3,238 (0.025 %) | 3.5 | 2.00 (0.95–4.20) | 0.0605 | 2.22 (1.06–4.64) | 0.0352 |
| Femalesb | 10 (0.063 %) | 1,228 (0.008 %) | 12.0 | 8.08 (1.96–33.33) | 0.0005 | 7.23 (1.76–29.77) | 0.0061 |
| Upper limb fractures | 1,455 (1.76 %) | 818,437 (2.88 %) | 62.5 | 0.60 (0.54–0.68) | 0.0001 | 0.54 (0.48–0.61) | <0.0001 |
| Malesa | 1,211 (1.82 %) | 557,876 (4.25 %) | 173.3 | 0.42 (0.37–0.47) | <0.0001 | 0.41 (0.37–0.47) | <0.0001 |
| Femalesb | 244 (1.53 %) | 260,561 (1.71 %) | 0.6 | 0.89 (0.67–1.19) | 0.4302 | 0.69 (0.52–0.91) | 0.0090 |
Total unweighted ED visits for patients with ASD diagnosis was 18,152. Total unweighted ED visits for patients without ASD diagnosis was 6,311,505
a
Percent of the ED visits due to fractures in males
b
Percent of the ED visits due to fractures in females