Research Article
Interleukin-6 versus Common Inflammatory Biomarkers for Diagnosing Fracture-Related Infection: Utility and Potential Influencing Factors
Table 2
Demographics and clinical characteristics of 407 FRI patients and 195 FH patients.
| | Clinical characteristics | FRI group | FH group |
| | Age of first onset (years) median (IQR) | 42 (28, 53) | 35 (27, 47) | | Male | 41 (27, 52) | 34.5 (27, 44.75) | | Female | 46 (34.5, 55.5) | 41 (27, 51) | | Gender ratio (male/female) | 336/71 | 130/65 | | Features of injury (no., %) | | Open | 251 (61.67%) | 18 (9.23%) | | Closed | 102 (25.06%) | 155 (79.49%) | | Unavailable | 54 (13.27%) | 22 (11.28%) | | Top 5 injury types (no., %) | | Traffic injury | 118 (28.99%) | | | Falling injury | 52 (12.78%) | | | Falling from a height | 34 (8.35%) | | | Stabbing injury | 28 (6.88%) | | | Bruise | 26 (6.39%) | | | Infection side distribution (left/right/bilateral) | 209/191/7 | | | Infection site number (single/multiple) | 342/65 | | | Top 3 infection sites (no., %) | | Tibia | 188 (54.97%) | | | Femur | 65 (19.01%) | | | Calcaneus | 43 (12.57%) | | | Positive rate of pathogen culture | 62.31% (210/337) | | | Pathogen for infection monomicrobial/polymicrobial | 153/57 | | | Top 5 detected pathogens (no., %) | | Staphylococcus aureus | 61 (39.87%) | | | Pseudomonas aeruginosa | 27 (17.65%) | | | Staphylococcus epidermidis | 10 (6.53%) | | | Enterococcus faecalis | 8 (5.23%) | | | Escherichia coli | 7 (4.58%) | |
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Shapiro-Wilk normality test showed that the data of age was not normally distributed ( , ). |
