Table 1.

Descriptive characteristics of the patients with stress fracture and controls without stress fractures

	Total n = 60	Stress fractures n = 30	No stress fractures n = 30	p-value
Age, years	41 (19)	39 (13.9)	42.3 (9.80)	0.3
range	19-66	19-64	23-66
Height, cm	169 (5)	167 (6)	169 (5)	0.7
Weight, kg	68.5 (12.20)	68.1 (15.00)	69.5 (10.50)	0.7
BMI	24.1 (3.90)	24.1 (5.10)	24.1 (3.30)	1.0
History of eating disorder, n	10	7	3	0.2
History of oligo-menorrhea/amenorrhea, n	12	9	3	0.05

Unless otherwise stated, values are mean (SD).

Independent t-test for means between groups and chi-squared test (for proportions).