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Table 1 Patients’ demographic data

From: Proximal junctional fractures after long-segment instrumented fusion: comparisons between upper instrumented vertebrae and upper instrumented vertebrae + 1

Characteristic

UIV group (N = 20)

UIV + 1 group (N = 22)

P values

Age (years)

71.00 ± 5.16

71.09 ± 8.34

0.967

Age (years) (at revision)

71.75 ± 5.22

74.05 ± 8.07

0.286

Gender

 Female

17

19

0.900

 Male

3

3

Fixed vertebrae

 4

5

17

 < 0.001

 5

6

5

 6

5

0

 7

2

0

 9

2

0

BMD (T score)

− 3.34 ± 0.97

− 3.26 ± 0.77

0.766

BMI

25.50 ± 3.91

26.07 ± 3.33,

0.618

ASA score

2.87 ± 0.56

2.63 ± 0.64

 

CCI

1.60 ± 1.05

1.27 ± 0.83

0.265

Interval (months)

8.18 ± 10.06

35.86 ± 31.10

 

Surgical methods

Interbody fusion

 Yes

11

9

0.361

 No

9

13

Corrective osteotomy

 Yes

5

0

0.012

 No

15

22

Sacral or iliac screw

 Yes

12

8

0.002

 No

3

19

OVFx before surgery

 Yes

9

4

0.060

 No

11

8

Fall incidence between index and revision

 Yes

2

13

0.001

 No

18

9

Is index a revision surgery?

 Yes

10

3

0.011

 No

10

19

UIV

 T10

2

0

0.026

 T12

5

1

 L1

9

18

 L2

4

3

LIV

 L4

1

0

0.003

 L5

7

19

 S/iliac

12

3

  1. BMI body mass index; ASA American Society of Anesthesiologists; CCI Charlson Comorbidity Index; ODI Oswestry Disability Index; VAS visual analogue scale; OVFx osteoporosis vertebral fractures