Table 4.

Bivariate association between patients' age and associated injuries with injury mechanism.

	Falls from height	Gunshot	Industrial	RTA	Simple falls	Test statistic	p-value
Age (years), mean (SD)	32.24 (17.99)	30.1 (10.75)	40.5 (13.63)	32.25 (14.82)	46.62 (29.36)	f (4, 134.31) = 76.2	<0.001
Age groups (years)
Children (≤9)	55 (10.8)	2 (6.7)	0	22 (5.7)	399 (19)	χ 2(28) = 983.9	<0.001
Adolescent (10–18)	88 (17.4)	0	3 (7.9)	33 (8.5)	197 (9.4)
Adults	358 (70.6)	28 (93.3)	35 (92.1)	323 (83)	867 (41.2)
19–30	102 (20.1)	16 (53.3)	6 (15.8)	145 (37.3)	130 (6.2)
31–40	95 (18.7)	9 (30)	8 (21.1)	100 (25.7)	143 (6.8)
41–50	73 (14.4)	2 (6.7)	13 (34.2)	53 (13.6)	135 (6.4)
51–60	58 (11.4)	1 (3.3)	5 (13.2)	21 (5.4)	207 (9.8)
61–70	30 (5.9)	0	3 (7.9)	4 (1)	252 (12)
Elderly (≥71)	6 (1.2)	0	0	11 (2.8)	639 (30.4)
Associated injuries						χ 2(2) = 5.62	<0.001
Open fracture	25 (4.9)	27 (90)	37 (97.4)	56 (14.4)	38 (1.8)	χ 2(4) = 457.6	<0.001
Pathological fracture	0	0	0	0	94 (4.5)	χ 2(4) = 457.6	<0.001
Vascular injury	4 (0.8)	2 (6.7)	7 (18.4)	5 (1.3)	30 (1.4)	χ 2(4) = 28.60	<0.001
Neurological injury	13 (2.6)	3 (10)	7 (18.4)	22 (5.7)	15 (0.7)	χ 2(4) = 66.85	<0.001
Dexterity						χ 2(1) = 0.112	<0.001
Left	172 (33.9)	19 (63.3)	21 (55.3)	101 (26)	993 (47.2)	χ 2(8) = 281.9	<0.001
Right	148 (29.2)	11 (36.7)	17 (44.7)	123 (31.6)	824 (39.2)
Axial	187 (36.9)	0	0	165 (42.4)	285 (13.6)
∗ Numbers within brackets in age group and dexterity categories represent the percentages within the same category.
∗∗Numbers within brackets in the associated injury category represent the overall percentage within the injury mechanism.