“…Persson et al found significant differences in terms of risk for 3 age groups (15–19 years, 20–29 years, > 30 years) the risk decreasing with increasing age [22]. Contrary to reports on initial ruptures [4, 13, 16, 27, 30], sex appeared to have no influence on repeat rupture, which has been reported elsewhere in the literature [11, 15, 22, 29, 31, 32, 36].…”