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Table 3 Regression estimates for yearly decline obtained from Monte Carlo simulations (synthetic Crawford et al. (C)/Valentin et al (V) data) including data for women and men from the Crawford et al. study

From: Rate of lumbar paravertebral muscle fat infiltration versus spinal degeneration in asymptomatic populations: an age-aggregated cross-sectional simulation study

Endpoint

Variable

Iteration

n

Mean

Std. Dev.

Min

Max

MF + ES C (women)

b(age)

10000

40

0.162

0.099

−0.222

0.502

se(b)

10000

40

0.087

0.013

0.046

0.142

Multifidus C (women)

b(age)

10000

40

0.185

0.114

−0.341

0.632

se(b)

10000

40

0.105

0.014

0.057

0.159

Erector Spinae C (women)

b(age)

10000

40

0.153

0.090

−0.183

0.486

se(b)

10000

40

0.079

0.013

0.040

0.133

MF + ES C (men)

b(age)

10000

40

0.175

0.044

−0.005

0.328

se(b)

10000

40

0.048

0.006

0.027

0.077

Multifidus C (men)

b(age)

10000

40

0.299

0.063

0.077

0.544

se(b)

10000

40

0.070

0.009

0.040

0.102

Erector Spinae C (men)

b(age)

10000

40

0.113

0.032

−0.001

0.232

se(b)

10000

40

0.035

0.005

0.021

0.055

MF + ES C

b(age)

10000

80

0.169

0.060

−0.072

0.370

se(b)

10000

80

0.055

0.005

0.037

0.080

Mulitfidus C

b(age)

10000

80

0.244

0.071

−0.036

0.509

se(b)

10000

80

0.068

0.006

0.044

0.094

Erector Spinae C

b(age)

10000

80

0.132

0.059

−0.088

0.435

se(b)

10000

80

0.051

0.005

0.036

0.070

Psoas V

b(age)

10000

24

0.044

0.024

−0.048

0.126

se(b)

10000

24

0.024

0.004

0.012

0.041

Multifidus V

b(age)

10000

24

0.105

0.048

−0.064

0.297

se(b)

10000

24

0.048

0.007

0.025

0.074

Erector Spinae V

b(age)

10000

24

0.072

0.034

−0.088

0.208

se(b)

10000

24

0.034

0.005

0.017

0.055

MF + ES V

b(age)

10000

24

0.088

0.040

−0.061

0.239

se(b)

10000

24

0.040

0.006

0.018

0.062

  1. b(age) regression estimate of yearly decline per age year, se(b) standard error of b(age), Iteration number of iterations in the Monte Carlo simulation, n sample size, Std. Dev. standard deviation