title: Narrow Intercondylar Notch and Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury in Female Nonathletes with Knee Osteoarthritis Aged 41-65 Years in Plateau Region.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Few data are available concerning intercondylar notch dimensions in female nonathletes with knee osteoarthritis (OA) in plateau region. The aim of this study was to assess the relation of intercondylar notch morphology to anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries in female nonathletes with knee OA aged 41-65 years from the Chinese Loess Plateau.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study was conducted on 330 patients with ACL injury (aged 31-65 years; 159 males, 171 females), 141 patients with OA (aged 31-65 years; 59 males, 82 females), and 89 female healthy controls (aged 41-65 years), and this evaluation included identifying the distribution of patients with OA or ACL injury and measuring the intercondylar notch width indexes (NWIs).
  
  
  RESULTS
  There was a significant rising trend in patients with OA (the Kellgren and Lawrence grade = 3) with ACL injury (OA-S + ACL) aged 41-65 years, especially in females. We found that the notches of OA-S + ACL had a smaller NWI compared with control and OA without ACL injury (OA-S-only, P = 0.000, 95% confidence interval [CI] = -0.059--0.030; P = 0.000, 95% CI = -0.049--0.016). A similar trend was found in notch shape index (NSI), but not in notch depth index and the cross-sectional area. The cutoff of NWI and NSI value was 0.26, and 0.65, and area under the receiver operating characteristic curve was 0.82, and 0.79, respectively. Further study displayed a significant correlation between a reduced NWI and NSI and OA-S + ACL (P = 0.000, χ2 = 14.012; P = 0.000, χ2 = 14.286).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A narrower intercondylar notch and a plateau environment are risk factors of predisposing female nonathletes with knee OA to ACL injury aged 41-65 years.
authors: Department of Orthopaedics, The Second Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000; Orthopaedics Key Laboratory of Gansu Province, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China.
authors: Bin
authors: B
authors: Geng
authors: Orthopaedics Key Laboratory of Gansu Province, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China.
authors: Jing
authors: J
authors: Wang
authors: Orthopaedics Key Laboratory of Gansu Province, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China.
authors: Jing-Lin
authors: JL
authors: Ma
authors: Department of Orthopaedics, The Second Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China.
authors: Bo
authors: B
authors: Zhang
authors: Department of Orthopaedics, The Second Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China.
authors: Jin
authors: J
authors: Jiang
authors: Department of Orthopaedics, The Second Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China.
authors: Xiao-Yi
authors: XY
authors: Tan
authors: Department of Orthopaedics, The Second Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000; Orthopaedics Key Laboratory of Gansu Province, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China.
authors: Ya-Yi
authors: YY
authors: Xia
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000070598:Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020370:Osteoarthritis, Knee / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D012307:Risk Factors