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Figure 4 | Scoliosis

Figure 4

From: Pathogenesis of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis in girls - a double neuro-osseous theory involving disharmony between two nervous systems, somatic and autonomic expressed in the spine and trunk: possible dependency on sympathetic nervous system and hormones with implications for medical therapy

Figure 4

Biiliac widths for preoperative girls. Graphs showing best-fit quadratic regression lines by age in years for higher (n = 65) and lower (n = 57) BMI subsets relative to median BMI values by each year of age (CA = Cobb angle, mean BMIs 21.7 and 17.3 respectively, p < 0.001). The girls in the higher BMI subset have larger biiliac widths for age relative to those in the lower BMI subset (p < 0.001, correcting for menarcheal age p = 0.020). Mean menarcheal ages for relatively higher (MH) and lower BMI (ML) subsets are 12.82 years and 13.43 years (p = 0.048, premenarcheal n = 7 & 19 respectively)(analyses of variance correcting for age or menarcheal age).

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Scoliosis and Spinal Disorders

ISSN: 2397-1789

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