Table 2.
Presence or absence of patellar chondropathy by gender, age group, and nutritional status.
| Variables | Patellar chondropathy | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | Without | With | P | |
| Gender | < 0.001 | |||
| Male | 173 | 55 (31.8%) | 118 (68.2%) | |
| Female | 216 | 26 (12.0%) | 190 (88.0%) | |
| Age group (years) | < 0.001 | |||
| < 30 | 66 | 37 (56.1%) * | 29 (43.9%) | |
| 30 to 39 | 76 | 24 (31.6%) * | 52 (68.4%) | |
| 40 to 49 | 81 | 11 (13.6%) | 70 (86.4%) | |
| 50 to 59 | 81 | 4 (4.9%) | 77 (95.1%) * | |
| ≥ 60 | 85 | 5 (5.9%) | 80 (94.1%) * | |
| Nutritional status | 0.07 | |||
| Underweight | 3 | 2 (66.7%) | 1 (33.3%) | |
| Normal weight | 148 | 33 (22.3%) | 115 (77.7%) | |
| Overweight | 145 | 33 (22.8%) | 112 (77.2%) | |
| Obese | 93 | 13 (14.0%) | 80 (86.0%) | |
*
Statistically significant association by analysis of adjusted residuals at a 5% significance level.