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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Spine J. 2023 Apr 21;23(9):1375–1388. doi: 10.1016/j.spinee.2023.04.012

Table 2.

Correlation analysis to identify important factors contributing to pain-like behaviors.

NP T2 signal Relative IVD height Degeneration score CT (adjacent site) EP T2 (large ROI) EP T2 (small ROI) Spinal cord SubP
Normalized grip peak force Pearson r 0.436 0.481 −0.678 0.810 −0.471 −0.604 −0.704
p-value 0.062 0.037 * 0.006 * 0.005 * 0.048 * 0.008 * 0.007 *
Normalized paw withdrawal threshold Pearson r 0.666 0.444 −0.757 0.613 0.005 −0.274 −0.668
p-value 0.002 * 0.057 0.001 * 0.059 0.985 0.272 0.013 *
*

indicates significant correlation with p<0.05

a

Normalized grip peak force and normalized paw withdrawal threshold did not significantly correlated with whole IVD T2 signal, μCT (EP), or μCT (far field), p>0.05