Table 2.

Cross-sectional CSA results for ALS, PLS, PMA and their matched controls.

		CSA PAT	CSA CON	ΔCSA	p-value	FDR-corrected p-value
ALS C9–	UCSC	71.03 ± 7.55	75.30 ± 7.55	4.27	<0.001	<0.001
	C1	75.41 ± 9.62	78.75 ± 9.62	3.34	0.010	0.016
	C2	68.51 ± 7.41	72.22 ± 7.41	3.71	<0.001	0.001
	C3	69.87 ± 7.79	75.53 ± 7.79	5.66	<0.001	<0.001
	C4	72.57 ± 9.26	76.87 ± 9.21	4.30	0.025	0.030
ALS C9+	UCSC	72.36 ± 6.96	77.31 ± 7.11	4.77	0.019	0.030
	C1	74.72 ± 9.42	79.75 ± 9.68	4.90	0.052	0.066
	C2	70.11 ± 6.96	74.28 ± 7.15	3.98	0.032	0.047
	C3	72.25 ± 7.19	78.15 ± 7.54	5.73	0.006	0.013
	C4	73.19 ± 10.69	80.43 ± 9.95	7.23	0.301	0.309
PLS	UCSC	66.89 ± 7.16	73.55 ± 7.26	6.66	0.003	0.005
	C1	69.14 ± 9.34	76.73 ± 9.34	7.59	0.003	0.005
	C2	63.47 ± 7.22	70.01 ± 7.21	6.54	<0.001	0.002
	C3	66.89 ± 6.98	74.32 ± 7.07	7.43	<0.001	0.003
	C4	65.50 ± 7.02	77.99 ± 7.80	12.49	0.002	0.005
PMA	UCSC	71.17 ± 8.42	75.80 ± 8.79	4.64	0.002	0.005
	C1	74.24 ± 11.14	78.83 ± 11.14	4.59	0.011	0.016
	C2	69.43 ± 8.99	73.16 ± 8.99	3.74	0.011	0.016
	C3	70.82 ± 8.98	76.30 ± 9.37	5.48	<0.001	0.002
	C4	74.64 ± 9.69	75.15 ± 10.03	0.52	0.876	0.876

CSA PAT and CSA CON are the estimated marginal means, corrected for age and gender (in mean ± standard deviation). All CSA values are in mm².

P-values < 0.05 are denoted in bold.