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Figure 7 | Scoliosis

Figure 7

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 7

Corrected stature by age for preoperative and normal girls. Corrected standing height (by the Bjure-Nachemson formula [182]) plotted against age in years for relatively higher (n = 65) and lower (n = 57) BMI subsets (CA = Cobb angle). Graphs show best-fit quadratic regression lines for preoperative and normal girls with p values for differences between preoperatives and normals (correcting for menarcheal age p < 0.001 for each BMI subset). MN = menarcheal age of normals, M preop = menarcheal age of preoperative girls: mean menarcheal ages of preoperatives and normals in higher BMI subset 12.82 years and 12.59 years (p = 0.717); and lower BMI subset 13.43 years and 13.14 years (p = 0.825, premenarcheal for normals n = 45 & 63 respectively). Mean BMIs for preoperatives as in Figure 4, and for normals 21.0 (n = 139) and 17.3 (p < 0.001 n = 135) (ANOVAs correcting for age or menarcheal age) [29, 122].

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Scoliosis and Spinal Disorders

ISSN: 2397-1789

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