Review Article
The Epidemiology and Demographics of Legg-Calvé-Perthes' Disease
Table 2
Demographics of 4166 children with Legg-Calvé-Perthes’ disease.
| | Study | Year | City, country | Region | Race | No Pts | Age (yrs) | M (%) | F (%) | Unil (%) | Bil (%) | R (%) | L (%) |
| | Rosenfeld et al. [29] | 2007 | Dallas, TX | North America | | 172 | 4.6 | | | 156 (90.7) | 16 (9.3) | | | | Catterall [1] | 1971 | London, England | British Isles | White | 121 | 4.66 | 96 (79.3) | 25 (20.7) | 109 (90.1) | 12 (9.9) | | | | Gray et al. [12] | 1972 | British Columbia, Canada | North America | White | 379 | 5 | 322 (85.0) | 57 (15.0) | 317 (84.1) | 60 (15.9) | 150 (47.3) | 167 (52.7) | | Kealey et al. [19] | 2000 | Northern Ireland | British Isles | White | 313 | 5.7 | 256 (81.8) | 57 (18.2) | 264 (84.3) | 49 (15.7) | | | | Moberg and Rehnberg [16] | 1992 | Uppsala, Sweden | Scandinavia | White | 51 | 5.75 | 38 (74.5) | 13 (25.5) | 45 (88.2) | 6 (11.8) | | | | Hall et al. [21] | 1983 | Liverpool, England | British Isles | White | 157 | 5.8 | 133 (84.7) | 24 (15.3) | | | | | | Wiig et al. [30] | 2008 | Norway | Scandinavia | White | 425 | 5.8 | 324 (76.2) | 101 (23.8) | 370 (87.1) | 55 (12.9) | 167 (45.4) | 201 (54.6) | | Fulford et al. [31] | 1993 | Edinburgh, Scotland | British Isles | White | 94 | 5.8 | 85 (90) | 9 (10) | 89 (95) | 5 (5) | | | | Fisher [28] | 1972 | Connecticut | North America | White | 203 | 6 | 153 (81.4) | 35 (18.6) | 163 (86.7) | 25 (913.3) | 83 (50.9) | 80 (49.1) | | Rowe et al. [9] | 2005 | Chonnam province, Korea | Asia | Indo-Malay (Korean) | 84 | 6 | | | 79 (94) | 5 (6) | 46 (52) | 43 (48) | | Pillai et al. [20] | 2005 | Dumfries, Scotland | British Isles | White | 40 | 6.5 | 31 (78) | 9 (22) | | | | | | Guille et al. [32] | 1998 | Wilmington, DE | North America | | 575 | 6.9 | 470 (81.7) | 105 (18.3) | 497 (86.4) | 78 (13.6) | | | | Wang et al. [33] | 1990 | Taipei, Taiwan | Asia | Indo-Malay (Chinese) | 57 | 7 | 47 (83) | 10 (17) | 52 (91) | 5 (9) | 21 (40) | 31 (60) | | Kim et al. [7] | 2006 | All Japan | Asia | Indo-Malay (Japanese) | 711 | 7.08 | 606 (86.4) | 95 (13.6) | 656 (92.3) | 55 (7.7) | 281 (43.0) | 327 (57.0) | | Petrie and Bitenic [34] | 1971 | Montreal, Quebec | North America | White | 60 | 7.75 | 49 (82) | 11 (18) | 41 (84) | 8 (16) | | | | Herring et al. [35] | 2004 | All USA | North America | | 345 | 8 | 271 (80.4) | 66 (19.6) | 317 (91.9) | 28 (8.1) | 162 (47.0) | 183 (53.0) | | Joseph et al. [5] | 1988 | Karnataka and Vellore, India | Asia | Indo-Med (Indian) | 138 | 9.4 | 97 (70.3) | 41 (29.7) | | | | | | Chacko et al. [36] | 1986 | Karnataka, India | Asia | Indo-Med (Indian) | 165 | 9.6 | 119 (72.1) | 46 (27.9) | 155 (93.9) | 10 (6.1) | 92 (54.9) | 63 (40.6) | | Wijesekera [10] | 1984 | Kurunegala, Sri Lanka (Ceylon) | Asia | Indo-Med (Sri Lankan) | 76 | 9.3 | 52 (68) | 24 (32) | 74 (97) | 2 (3) | 40 (53) | 34 (47) |
| | | | All | | 6.5 | 4237 (81.4) | 969 (18.6) | 4039 (89.2) | 491 (10.8) | 1227 (46.5) | 1410 (53.5) | | Averages | Non-Indian | | 6.3 | | | | Indian | | 9.5 |
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