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Athletes\u2019 anthropometric characteristics assessed to calculate age at peak height velocity. Predicted mature heights (PMHs) collected and categorised into four quartiles. Athletes had wrist and hand radiographs for assessment of skeletal age (SA). Early and late maturers with an SA of &gt;1\u2009year older or younger than their chronological age (CA).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>For the sample (n=67) across all groups, 43 (64%) athletes had one or more injuries: total of 212 injuries, 4.9 injuries per athlete across study. Survival analysis of maturity status using SA found early maturing athletes had two-fold greater injury risk compared with late maturers (HR 2.04, 95%\u2009CI 1.15 to 3.61, p=0.015). PMH associated with injury risk (HR 1.05, 95%\u2009CI 1.01 to 1.08, p=0.006).<\/jats:p>\n                    <jats:p>Athletes in fourth quartile (\u2265184\u2009cm) had up to two-fold injury risk (HR 2.41, 95%\u2009CI 1.42 to 4.08, p=0.001). Racquet and individual sports involved similar injury risk (HR 1.14, 95%\u2009CI 0.86 to 1.52, p=0.37).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>SA early maturity and PMH gradient were significant predictors of injury in youths.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1136\/bmjopen-2018-023284","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,3,14]],"date-time":"2019-03-14T06:09:09Z","timestamp":1552543749000},"page":"e023284","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/crossmarkpolicy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["Sports injuries aligned to predicted mature height in highly trained Middle-Eastern youth athletes: a cohort study"],"prefix":"10.1136","volume":"9","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3661-6598","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Abdallah","family":"Rejeb","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Aspire Academy Sports Medicine Center, Aspetar Qatar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar"},{"name":"Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapie, Universiteit Gent Faculteit Geneeskunde en Gezondheidswetenschappen, Gent, Belgium"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Amanda","family":"Johnson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Aspire Academy Sports Medicine Center, Aspetar Qatar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9162-4948","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Abdulaziz","family":"Farooq","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Athlete Health and Performance Research, Aspetar, Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Department, Doha, Qatar"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ruth","family":"Verrelst","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapie, Universiteit Gent Faculteit Geneeskunde en Gezondheidswetenschappen, Gent, Belgium"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Samuel","family":"Pullinger","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Sports Sciences, ASPIRE Academy for Sports Excellence, Doha, Ad Dawhah, Qatar"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Roel","family":"Vaeyens","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Movement and Sports Sciences, Universiteit Gent Faculteit Geneeskunde en Gezondheidswetenschappen, Gent, Belgium"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Erik","family":"Witvrouw","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapie, Universiteit Gent Faculteit Geneeskunde en Gezondheidswetenschappen, Gent, Belgium"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"239","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,3,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"2025121603211068000_9.3.e023284.1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1002\/1520-6300(200101\/02)13:1<1::AID-AJHB1000>3.0.CO;2-S"},{"key":"2025121603211068000_9.3.e023284.2","first-page":"1044","article-title":"Maturity status of youth football players: a noninvasive estimate","volume":"37","author":"Malina","year":"2005","journal-title":"Med Sci Sports Exerc"},{"key":"2025121603211068000_9.3.e023284.3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1097\/00042752-199407000-00004"},{"key":"2025121603211068000_9.3.e023284.4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/S0003-9993(96)90137-9"},{"key":"2025121603211068000_9.3.e023284.5","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1002\/1520-6300(200009\/10)12:5<610::AID-AJHB5>3.0.CO;2-D"},{"key":"2025121603211068000_9.3.e023284.6","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1136\/bmj.b490","article-title":"Investigation of growth, development, and factors associated with injury in elite schoolboy footballers: prospective study","volume":"338","author":"Johnson","year":"2009","journal-title":"BMJ"},{"key":"2025121603211068000_9.3.e023284.7","unstructured":"Peterson HA . 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