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. 2017 Feb 28;12(2):e0172844. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0172844

Table 2. Correlation matrix of age, anthropometric characteristics, and MRI measures of vertebral morphology and degree of lumbar lordosis in 40 healthy adolescent boys and 40 adolescent girls.

	Age (yr)	Height (cm)	Weight (kg)	BMI (kg/m²)	Vert. height (cm)	Vert. CSA (cm²)	Lumbar lordosis (°)
Age (yr)		0.72^c	0.47^b	0.14	0.68^c	0.43^a	-0.16	Boys
Height (cm)	0.54^c		0.61^c	0.11	0.84^c	0.67^c	-0.29
Weight (kg)	0.25	0.72^c		0.85^c	0.65^c	0.64^c	-0.21
BMI (kg/m²)	-0.03	0.30	0.88^c		0.27	0.34^a	-0.06
Vert. height (cm)	0.67^c	0.86^c	0.70^c	0.37^a		0.62^c	-0.27
Vert. CSA (cm²)	0.07	0.31^a	0.40^a	0.35^a	0.28		-0.53^c
Lumbar lordosis (°)	0.49^b	0.26	0.27	0.18	0.43^b	-0.33^a
	Girls

^aP ≤ 0.05

^bP ≤ 0.01

^cP ≤ 0.001