Table 4.
Differences between age groups in clinical outcomes 4 months after surgery, use of walking aid and living conditions. Values are count (%)
| Factor | All | 15–39 | 40–49 | p-value a |
| Walking aid b | 0.09 | |||
| No use of walking aid | 240 (77) | 95 (83) | 145 (74) | |
| Use of walking aid | 70 (23) | 20 (17) | 50 (26) | |
| Pain | 0.07 | |||
| No/transient pain | 101 (30) | 25 (22) | 76 (34) | |
| Mild/intermittent pain | 212 (63) | 80 (70) | 132 (60) | |
| Severe/substantial pain | 23 (7) | 9 (8) | 14 (6) | |
| Analgesics because of fracture | 0.04 | |||
| Yes | 68 (20) | 18 (9) | 50 (15) | |
| No | 281 (80) | 179 (91) | 281 (85) | |
| Living conditions c | 0.7 | |||
| Lives independently | 309 (99) | 105 (99) | 204 (99) | |
| Lives not independently | 5 (2) | 1 (1) | 4 (1) | |
| Deaths | 6 | 2 | 4 |
a-cSee Table 3