Table 3.
Correlations of the parameters
| Age | SVA | SS | PT | PI | LL | TK | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AS patients (n = 107) | ||||||||
| Age | 0.300* | −0.109 | 0.181 | 0.051 | −0.154 | 0.420* | ||
| Sagittal vertical axis (SVA) | r | −0.286* | 0.582* | 0.248** | −0.415* | 0.890* | ||
| Sacral slope (SS) | r | −0.215** | 0.617* | 0.678* | −0.289* | |||
| Pelvic tilt (PT) | r | 0.633* | −0.284* | 0.572* | ||||
| Pelvic incidence (PI) | r | 0.292* | 0.135 | |||||
| Lumbar lordosis (LL) | r | −0.232** | ||||||
| Thoracic kyphosis (TK) | r | |||||||
| Control (n = 40) | ||||||||
| Age | −0.248 | 0.009 | 0.586** | 0.494** | 0.301 | −0.029 | ||
| Sagittal vertical axis (SVA) | r | −0.358* | −0.310* | −0.576** | −0.411** | −0.212 | ||
| Sacral slope (SS) | r | −0.264 | 0.707** | 0.723** | 0.665** | |||
| Pelvic tilt (PT) | r | 0.471** | 0.175 | 0.017 | ||||
| Pelvic incidence (PI) | r | 0.804** | 0.620** | |||||
| Lumbar lordosis (LL) | r | 0.730** | ||||||
| Thoracic kyphosis (TK) | r | |||||||
* Significant correlation was established at the 0.01 level
** Significant correlation was established at the 0.05 level