Age-related radiographic parameters difference between the degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis patients and healthy people and correlation analysis

Table 5 The correlation analysis between IDH and DD, CEF, Modic changes, the thickness of LF, ROM

	DD		CEF		Modic changes		The thickness of LF		ROM
	r	P	r	P	r	P	r	P	r	P
L1-2	− 0.187	0.073	− 0.123	0.240	− 0.043	0.681	− 0.027	0.795	0.389	< 0.001*
L2-3	− 0.384	< 0.001*	− 0.307	0.030*	− 0.354	0.800	0.041	0.697	0.316	0.002*
L3-4	− 0.313	0.002*	− 0.098	0.350	− 0.089	0.396	− 0.299	0.235	0.324	0.005*
L4-5	− 0.303	0.007*	− 0.181	0.082	− 0.011	0.920	− 0.068	0.519	0.314	0.002*
L5-S1	− 0.498	< 0.001*	− 0.447	< 0.001*	− 0.140	0.160	0.141	0.179	0.472	< 0.001*

IDH intervertebral disk height, DD disk degeneration, LF ligamentum flavum, ROM range of motion
*P < 0.05

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