Table 2 |
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| Characteristics and physical activity measures of teenagers with a 6-month past history of lower limb fractures vs healthy controls | |||
| Injured teenagers | Healthy controls | p value* | |
| (n = 32) | (n = 32) | ||
| Age (y) | 13.6 ± 1.5 | 13.5 ± 1.6 | 0.4547 |
| Height (cm) | 161.0 ± 10.9 | 162.6 ± 12.6 | 0.3883 |
| Weight (kg) | 52.4 ± 9.3 | 53.5 ± 10.8 | 0.3698 |
| BMI (kg.m-2) | 20.1 ± 1.9 | 20.1 ± 2.6 | 0.9556 |
| Number of valid monitored days | 7.9 +/- 2.3 | 7.7 +/- 2.1 | 0.7905 |
| Daily duration of the physical activity monitoring (min) | 745.4 ± 32.4 | 746.4 ± 35.8 | 0.9989 |
| Total activity (counts.min-1.d-1) | 556 ± 266.9 | 569.2 ± 219.7 | 0.7366 |
| Sedentary activity (min/day) (%) | 563.4 +/- 57.7 | 554.4 +/- 69.2 | 0.7548 |
| 75.6 | 74.3 | ||
| Light activity (min/day) (%) | 122.8 +/- 38.1 | 127.1 +/- 42.9 | 0.6654 |
| 16.5 | 17 | ||
| Moderate (min/day) (%) | 23.2 +/- 10 | 30.2 +/- 13.8 | 0.0174* |
| 3.1 | 4.1 | ||
| Vigorous activity (min/day) (%) | 35.9 +/- 19.5 | 34.7 +/- 18.5 | 0.7731 |
| 4.8 | 4.6 | ||
| Time spent in moderate to vigorous activity (min.day-1) | 59.1 ± 37.2 | 64.9 ± 30.9 | 0.3366 |
The results are expressed as mean ± SD. *: statistically significant difference [please always place at foot of table].
Ceroni et al. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2012 13:131 doi:10.1186/1471-2474-13-131
