Effect of Muscle Quality on Operative and Nonoperative Treatment of Rotator Cuff Tears.

Orthop J Sports Med · 2019 · PMC6683312 · PMID 31428659

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a nonsignificant trendP = .054so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

At presentation, nonsurgical patients on average were 5 years older (63.2 vs 58.4, P < .01) and had a nonsignificant trend toward having larger tears (4.5 vs 3.3 cm 2 , P = .054) compared with surgical patients.

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did not reach statistical significanceno p-value reported

When the supraspinatus tangent sign was positive, the difference between the surgical and nonsurgical groups did not reach statistical significance or the MCID.

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