Is Lumbosacral Transitional Vertebra Associated with Degenerative Lumbar Spinal Stenosis?

Table 3

Mean age, sacral slope (SS), lumbar lordosis (LL), and intervertebral disc height (IDH) in the LSTV and non-LSTV for the control group.

	Non-LSTV; Mean ± SD	LSTV; Mean ± SD	P value
Males	(n=59)	(n=31)
Age	61.5 ± 12	65.6 ± 11	0.128
BMI	27.3 ± 4.5	27.6 ± 3.5	0.704
SS	40.8 ± 6	44.4 ± 7	0.048
LL	48.2 ± 8	52.4 ± 11	0.089
IDH	9.7 ± 2	7.8 ± 2	<0.001
Female	(n=62)	(n=16)
Age	63.6 ± 11	69.6 ± 11	0.071
BMI	27.6 ± 5	27.5 ± 5.6	0.915
SS	41.1 ± 7	45.6 ± 8	0.076
LL	51.4 ± 12	55.1 ± 11	0.253
IDH	8.6 ± 2	8.4 ± 2	0.765

SD: standard deviation, n: sample size, LSTV: lumbosacral transitional vertebra.