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Table 1 Demographics of patients

From: Radiation dose of digital radiography (DR) versus micro-dose x-ray (EOS) on patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: 2016 SOSORT- IRSSD “John Sevastic Award” Winner in Imaging Research

 

EOS micro-dose (n = 99)

Digital radiography (n = 33)

p-value

Age

17.9 (4.8)

15.6 (3.5)

0.01*

Gender

18 male, 81 female

11 male, 22 female

 

Risser sign

4.2 (1.0)

4.3 (1.0)

0.70

Height (cm)

161.3 (8.3)

161.3 (11.3)

0.96

Weight (kg)

48.6 (6.6)

51.5 (12.6)

0.22

BMI (kg/m2)

18.7 (2.2)

19.5 (3.0)

0.10

Cobb angle

31.9 (12.7)

26.3 (12.4)

0.02*

  1. *indicates statistically significant difference at 0.05 level