Table 3 Presence of precipitating events for NF by ethnicity in reviewed patients
Precipitating events | European (n=122) | Maori (n=47) | Pacific (n=60) | Others (n=17) | Total (n=247) | p-value | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | Â |
Traditional tattooing | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 4 | 6.7 | 0 | 0.0 | 4 | 1.6 | 0.005 |
Accidental trauma | 43 | 35.2 | 15 | 31.9 | 19 | 31.7 | 4 | 23.5 | 82 | 33.2 | 0.791 |
Skin ulcer | 20 | 16.4 | 9 | 19.1 | 5 | 8.3 | 4 | 23.5 | 39 | 15.8 | 0.289 |
Surgery | 16 | 13.1 | 6 | 12.8 | 4 | 6.7 | 2 | 11.8 | 28 | 11.3 | 0.619 |
Burns | 3 | 2.5 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 3 | 1.2 | 0.378 |
Current IVDU* | 2 | 1.6 | 1 | 2.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 3 | 1.2 | 0.693 |