ArticleBMC musculoskeletal disorders2025
Adolescent health behaviors, family socioeconomic status and health as risk factors for tendon ruptures in adulthood: a longitudinal study.
Article in BMC musculoskeletal disorders, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
introductionThe incidence of tendon ruptures has increased in recent years highlighting the need of better understanding their causes and prevention strategies. This study aims to investigate the influence of adolescent health behaviors (smoking, alcohol use, physical activity), health (self-reported chronic disease, overweight), and family socioeconomic status (SES) (parental occupational status and educational level) on later tendon ruptures until middle age in Finnish adolescents. MATERIALS AND
methodsThe baseline data were surveys gathered biennially in 1981-1997 (the Adolescent Health and Lifestyle Survey) and linked individually with diagnoses of tendon ruptures (Achilles, quadriceps, hamstring, biceps tendon, and rotator cuff) retrieved from the Care Register for Health Care. A logistic regression model was used to analyze the associations between adolescents' health behaviors, health and family socioeconomic status on later tendon rupture. Adjusted odds ratios (aOR) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were computed.
resultsTotal of 42 971 persons were included in the analyses. The mean follow-up time was 25.2 years and during the follow-up 685 tendon ruptures occurred. Males were more likely to incur tendon rupture. The mean age at the time of tendon rupture was 36.6 years. Frequent activity in sports clubs increased the odds of tendon rupture (2 to 3 times a week or less aOR 1.73, CI 1.45-2.05, 4 or more times a week aOR 3.54, CI 2.88-4.32). The association was seen in both genders. Daily smoking, alcohol use, physical activity in leisure time, overweight, chronic disease, or parental socioeconomic status in adolescence were not associated with the risk of tendon rupture.
conclusionFrequent participation in sports clubs during adolescence increased the risk of tendon rupture in adulthood, while leisure time physical activity did not. Health compromising behaviors (smoking, alcohol use, overweight) or chronic diseases in adolescence does not seem to play a role in later tendon ruptures until middle age.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.