Anterior cruciate ligament remnant tissue harvested within 3-months after injury predicts higher healing potential

Table 4 Multivariate association in osteogenic differentiation (*p < 0.05)

	ALP activity			Osteocalcin mRNA			ALP mRNA			Runx2 mRNA
	p	OR	95 % CI	p	OR	95 % CI	p	OR	95 % CI	p	OR	95 % CI
Interval from injury to surgery^b, < 90 days	0.263	2.416	0.515–11.337	0.009*	20.579	2.119–199.882	0.022*	6.527	1.308–32.557	0.047*	5.247	1.023–26.922
10 ≤ age <20 year-old^c	0.895	0.884	0.142–5.491	0.384	2.683	0.290–24.782	0.962	0.954	0.141–6.481	0.592	0.600	0.092–3.895
20 ≤ age <30 year-old^c	0.240	0.277	0.033–2.356	0.909	1.155	0.097–13.787	0.742	1.420	0.176–11.451	0.480	0.463	0.055–3.924
Sex^a Female	0.030*	12.831	1.279–128.746	0.850	0.831	0.123–5.606	0.885	1.131	0.212–6.041	0.550	0.601	0.113–3.191
Meniscal injury^d	0.218	2.400	0.596–9.670	0.198	2.600	0.606–11.152	0.360	1.920	0.475–7.766	0.803	1.200	0.287–5.021
Chondral injury^d	0.000	0.000	0.000–0.000	1.000	1.000	0.081–12.270	0.000	0.000	0.000–0.000	0.913	1.150	0.093–14.188
Combined meniscal or chondral injuries^d	0.402	1.800	0.455–7.127	0.346	2.000	0.473–8.462	0.588	1.467	0.367–5.858	0.519	1.615	0.376–6.940

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