Table 3.

Correlation between bracing clinical outcomes of curve progression, curve features, gender and maturity.

EOIS (n = 111)	Final Cobb Angle a		In-Brace Percentage Correction a		Final Cobb Angle ≥ 50 b
	r	p-Value	r	p-Value	rbp	p-Value
Gender	−0.038	0689	0.064	0.513	0.036	0.705
Age at diagnosis	−0.041	0.672	−0.070	0.472	−0.083	0.385
Duration from menarche to diagnosis	−0.0256	0.013 *	−0.113	0.289	−0.268	0.009 **
Curve type at diagnosis	0.206	0.030 *	−0.021	0.833	0.048	0.621
Curve type just pre-bracing	0.268	0.004 **	−0.097	0.323	0.118	0.217
Age when bracing started	−0.278	0.003 **	−0.194	0.045 *	−0.233	0.014 *
Bracing duration	0.178	0.061	0.207	0.032 *	0.155	0.105
Body height when bracing started	−0.320	0.001 **	−0.203	0.040 *	−0.232	0.017 *
Direction of largest curve	0.342	0.000 **	−0.309	0.001 **	0.192	0.044
Initial Cobb angle	0.398	0.000 **	0.081	0.405	0.313	0.001 **
Cobb angle just pre-bracing	0.388	0.000 **	0.102	0.295	0.334	0.000 **
Cobb angle first in-bracing	0.328	0.001 **	−0.744	0.000 **	0.213	0.028 *
Cobb angle first stopped bracing	0.955	0.000 **	−0.170	0.080	0.771	0.000 **
In-brace percentage correction	−0.116	0.232			−0.030	0.763

** p ≤ 0.01; * p ≤ 0.05; ^a: Pearson correlation (r) was used on continuous data. ^b: Point-biserial correlation (r_bp) was used on categorical data.