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Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 3 Comparability of the baseline between the two groups (mean and standard deviation)

From: Reduced knee laxity and failure rate following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction compared with repair for acute tears: a meta-analysis

Endpoints

Reconstruction (N = 326)

Repair (N = 382)

P-value

Follow-up (months)

67.3 ± 119.4

99.8 ± 148.3

0.6

Age (years)

26.8 ± 5.5

27.5 ± 6.3

0.8

BMI (kg/m2)

24.6 ± 1.1

23.9 ± 1.1

0.3

Women (%)

31.5 ± 9.6

41.1 ± 9.2

0.1

Time from injury to surgery (days)

100.8 ± 154.0

27.1 ± 14.8

0.3

IKDC (0–100)

56.7 ± 10.0

60.7 ± 11.2

0.7

  1. No statistically significant difference was found in the endpoints of interest, indicating good between-groups comparability
  2. BMI: body mass index; IKDC: International Knee Document Committee