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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Bone. 2021 Feb 19;146:115889. doi: 10.1016/j.bone.2021.115889

Table 4.

Temperature effect sizes are negative for nearly all cortical properties and the absolute values are less than most RAL and loading effect sizes suggesting a modest impact.

Effect Sizes
Geometric Property Standard Temperature Thermoneutral Temperature Temp effect
RAL Loading Combined RAL Loading Combined
Total Area 0.601 2.577 2.783 1.36 3.005 3.777 −0.277
Marrow Area 0.090 0.817 0.451 0.394 0.715 0.647 0.319
Bone Area 0.721 2.994 3.297 1.701 3.671 4.618 −0.581
Bone Area Fraction 0.523 1.155 1.998 0.579 1.671 2.339 −0.750
Cortical Thickness 0.656 2.200 2.738 1.271 2.759 3.537 −0.674
Imax 0.480 2.404 2.632 1.225 3.489 3.311 −0.743
Imin 0.535 2.448 2.536 1.247 2.511 3.739 −0.118
TMD 0.115 −0.543 −0.937 0.198 −1.209 −0.744 0.739