The Epidemiology and Demographics of Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis

Table 5

Laterality in 3037 children with SCFE.

Study	Year	City/State/Country	Region	Race	U	%U	B	%B	R	%R	L	%L
Stott and Bidwell [29]	2003	Auckland, New Zealand	Australia/NZ	All	64	55.7	51	44.3	22	34.4	42	65.6
				White	28	49.1	29	50.9	10	35.7	18	64.3
				Maori	36	60.0	24	40.0	8	22.2	28	77.8
				Pacific Islanders	47	52.8	42	47.2	18	38.3	29	61.7
Noguchi and Sakamaki [38]	2002	Japan	Asia	Indo-Malay (Japanese)	270	86.0	44	14.0	127	47.0	143	53.0
Jerre et al. [42]	1996	Gothenburg, Sweden	Scandinavia	White	173	98.9	2	1.1	69	39.9	104	60.1
Hägglund et al. [34]	1984	Southern Sweden	Scandinavia	White	451	84.8	81	15.2	171	33.5	339	66.5
Loder [30]	1996	Worldwide	Worldwide	White	663	83.2	134	16.8	239	37.8	394	62.2
				African	264	65.8	137	34.2	109	41.3	155	58.7
				Amerindian	227	83.5	45	16.5	96	42.5	130	57.5
				Indo-Malay	98	81.7	22	18.3	49	50.0	49	50.0
				NA/PI	21	61.8	13	38.2	8	38.1	13	61.9
				Indo-Med	13	61.9	8	38.1	5	38.5	8	61.5
				All	1267	77.7	363	22.3	510	40.3	756	59.7
Loder et al. [46]	2006	Michigan and India	North America	All	149	61.3	94	38.7	63	42.3	86	57.7
Lim et al. [33]	2008	Singapore	Asia	All	42	79.2	11	20.8	25	45.5	30	54.5
Burrows [47]	1957	London, England	Europe		77	77.0	23	23.0	29	37.7	48	62.3
Carlioz et al. [48]	1984	Paris, France	Europe		54	80.6	13	19.4	22	40.7	32	59.3
Aronson and Carlson [13]	1992	Detroit, Michigan	North America	All	30	68.2	14	31.8
Aronson et al. [49]	1992	Detroit, Michigan	North America	All	30	54.5	25	45.5
Carney et al. [26]	1991	Iowa	North America		93	75.0	31	25.0
Dreghorn et al.[50]	1987	Glasgow, Scotland	Europe		58	75.3	19	24.7
Kulick and Denton [51]	1982	New York	North America	All	63	67.0	31	33.0
Koval et al. [52]	1989	New York	North America	All	29	59.2	20	40.8	36	45.0	44	55.0
Song et al. [44]	2009		South Korea	Indo-Malay	187	81.0	44	19.0	77	41.2	110	58.8
Totals					3037	77.8	866	22.2	1151	39.9	1734	60.1