Table 2.

Pearson’s correlations between measures of pain or bone mineral density levels and other variables (NRS numeric rating scale; r correlation coefficient)

	Last recorded pain NRS score at
	Day 15		Day 20		T-score L1–L4
	r	P	r	P	r	P
Bone mineral density L1–L4 (g/cm2)	−0.220	0.056	−0.197	0.089	N/A	N/A
T-score L1–L4	−0.214	0.063	−0.192	0.096
Z-score L1–L4	−0.156	0.178	−0.134	0.248
Age (years)	0.202	0.078	0.254	0.026	−0.432	<0.001
Postmenopausal length (years)	0.288	0.011	0.313	0.006	−0.351	0.002
Weight (kg)	0.021	0.867	0.105	0.405	0.407	0.001
Height (cm)	−0.043	0.735	0.020	0.877	0.365	0.003
Body mass index (kg/m2)	0.040	0.750	0.113	0.372	0.283	0.022
Pain NRS score at admission	0.454	<0.001	0.386	<0.001	−0.097	0.401
Length of hospital stay (days)	0.407	<0.001	0.365	0.001	−0.156	0.176
Last recorded pain NRS score
At day 15	1.000	N/A			−0.214	0.063
At day 20	0.908	<0.001	1.000	N/A	−0.192	0.096

Bold values indicate statistical significance