Sex-based differences in clinical and radiological presentation of patients with degenerative lumbar scoliosis: a cross-sectional study

Table 4 Comparison of vertebral BMD and paraspinal muscle degeneration in patients with degenerative lumbar scoliosis of different genders

	Male	Female	Statistics	p-Value
HU at L1 vertebrae	134.0 ± 48.2	132.1 ± 76.9	0.063	0.95
FIR at apical vertebrae
Concave	24.9 ± 8.4	43.4 ± 16.4	−3.288	0.002*
Convex	23.0 ± 10.7	40.3 ± 18.2	−2.761	0.007*

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