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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2017 Nov 1;65(3):10.1002/pbc.26871. doi: 10.1002/pbc.26871

TABLE 3.

Competing risks regression for skeletal toxicities by age subgroup and asparaginase treatment arm

Bone Fracture Osteonecrosis
Univariate Multivariable Univariate Multivariable
Hazard Ratio [95%CI] p-value Hazard Ratio [95%CI] p-value Hazard Ratio [95%CI] p-value Hazard Ratio [95%CI] p-value
Age <10 Years
Hispanic vs. Non-Hispanic 0.24 [0.10–0.54] 0.0006 0.23 [0.10–0.51] 0.0003 0.61 [0.18–2.02] 0.41 0.59 [0.18–1.95] 0.39
Female vs. Male 1.25 [0.86–1.81] 0.25 1.25 [0.86–1.82] 0.23 0.35 [0.14–0.88] 0.025 0.34 [0.13–0.84] 0.020
Post induction ASP
 Direct assignment vs. Not 0.96 [0.65–1.42] 0.86 0.97 [0.61–1.52] 0.88 1.92 [0.87–4.22] 0.11 1.79 [0.68–4.69] 0.23
 IM E. Coli vs. Not 1.09 [0.73–1.63] 0.67 1.03 [0.64–1.67] 0.90 0.58 [0.22–1.56] 0.28 0.90 [0.27–3.01] 0.86
SR vs. Not 0.95 [0.63–1.42] 0.80 0.96 [0.64–1.43] 0.83 1.64 [0.62–4.35] 0.32 1.79 [0.68–4.71] 0.24
Obese vs. Not 1.18 [0.69–2.03] 0.55 1.42 [0.82–2.47] 0.21 0.56 [0.13–2.4] 0.43
Age ≥10 years
Hispanic vs. Non-Hispanic 0.63 [0.31–1.28] 0.20 0.62 [0.31–1.27] 0.19 0.28 [0.10–0.76] 0.013 0.23 [0.08–0.66] 0.006
Female vs. Male 0.99 [0.55–1.79] 0.98 0.91 [0.51–1.64] 0.76 0.61 [0.31–1.22] 0.16 0.49 [0.25–0.97] 0.042
Post induction ASP
 Direct Assignment vs. not 0.72 [0.37–1.42] 0.35 0.80 [0.37–1.73] 0.57 0.34 [0.14–0.81] 0.015 0.32 [0.12–0.82] 0.020
 IM E. Coli vs. Not 1.53 [0.85–2.73] 0.15 1.38 [0.70–2.71] 0.35 1.66 [0.88–3.11] 0.12 1.14 [0.59–2.20] 0.70
VHR vs. Not 0.77 [0.28–2.14] 0.62 0.75 [0.27–2.07] 0.58 0.41 [0.10–1.72] 0.22
Obese vs. not 1.21 [0.56–2.60] 0.63 1.31 [0.60–2.83] 0.50 0.42 [0.13–1.39] 0.16

Abbreviations: Direct assignment: Directly assigned to receive native E. Coli asparaginase IM E.Coli: Intramuscular E. Coli asparaginase; SR: Standard risk; VHR: Very high risk; ASP: asparaginase

Due to the small number of bone events (n<4) not considered in multivariable modeling