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Table 4 Patient characteristics tendinopathy patients vs. practice population [19]

From: Incidence and prevalence of lower extremity tendinopathy in a Dutch general practice population: a cross sectional study

 

Tendinopathy patients (n = 126)

Practice population (n = 10,651)

Gender

Male

41.3 % (95 % CI 32.6–50.0)

49 %

Female

58.7 % (95 % CI 50.0–67.4)

51 %

Mean age

46 years (95 % CI 43–49)*

36 years

Age categories

0–17

4.0 % (95 % CI 0.5–7.4)*

16 %

18–44

42.1 % (95 % CI 33.3–50.8)

48 %

45–64

35.7 % (95 % CI 27.2–44.2)*

26 %

65+

18.3 % (95 % CI 11.4–25.1)*

9 %

  1. 95 % CI = 95 % confidence interval, *significant for p ≤ 0.05