Skip to main content

Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 4 Baseline characteristics of the unilaterally and bilaterally operated cases in the Charnley (91 and 29) and Duraloc (99 and 21) groups

From: No differences in outcomes between cemented and uncemented acetabular components after 12–14 years: results from a randomized controlled trial comparing Duraloc with Charnley cups

Acetabulum

Mean

95% Confidence interval for mean

Lower bound

Upper bound

Charnley

 Baseline HHS

  Unilateral

46.7

43.8

49.5

  Bilateral

49.8

43.3

56.3

  Total

47.4

44.8

50.0

Age (years)

  Unilateral

65.5

64.0

67.0

  Bilateral

63.9

60.8

67.0

  Total

65.1

63.7

66.4

BMI (kg/m2)

  Unilateral

27.4

26.4

28.3

  Bilateral

25.3

24.1

26.5

  Total

26.9

26.1

27.7

Duraloc

 Baseline HHS

  Unilateral

48.2

45.3

51.1

  Bilateral

55.2

50.0

60.3

  Total

49.4

46.9

52.0

Age (years)

  Unilateral

66.2

64.8

67.7

  Bilateral

64.4

60.8

68.1

  Total

65.9

64.6

67.3

BMI (kg/m2)a

  Unilateral

27.1

26.3

27.9

  Bilateral

24.5

23.0

26.0

  Total

26.7

25.9

27.4

  1. aSignificant difference as evidenced by nonoverlapping confidence intervals