@article{ref1,
title="The correlation between anterior cruciate ligament injury in elite alpine skiers and their parents",
journal="Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy",
year="2014",
author="Westin, Maria and Reeds-Lundqvist, Sandra and Werner, Suzanne",
volume="24",
number="3",
pages="697-701",
abstract="PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to investigate whether a familiar correlation with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury exists between competitive alpine skiers and their parents. <br><br>METHODS: All 593 (293 males, 300 females) elite alpine skiers who have studied at a Swedish alpine Ski High School during 2006 and 2012 answered a questionnaire whether they or their parents had suffered an ACL injury. A total of 418 skiers (70 %) answered the questionnaire. <br><br>RESULTS: Twenty-nine per cent (n = 19) out of the 65 ACL-injured skiers reported that they had a parent (mother or father) who have had an ACL injury. In skiers without an ACL injury (n = 353), the result was 18 % (n = 64). An odds ratio of 1.95 (95 % confidence interval 1.04-3.65) was found to suffer an ACL injury if you have a parent who has had an ACL injury compared with if you have a parent without any ACL injury. <br><br>CONCLUSION: The findings of the current study demonstrated a family history to tear the ACL between alpine skiers who had studied at a Swedish Ski High School and ACL injuries of their parents. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: III.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0942-2056",
doi="10.1007/s00167-014-2974-9",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00167-014-2974-9"
}