The Upregulation of COX2 in Human Degenerated Nucleus Pulposus: The Association of Inflammation with Intervertebral Disc Degeneration

Table 2

Spearman analysis of correlation between COX2 and baseline information.

	COX2 positivity (cell+/cell number)		COX2 intensity (IOD/cell number)
	Spearman correlation	value	Spearman correlation	value
Gender ( [%])	0.068	0.488	0.054	0.58
Age (years)	0.177	0.069	0.313	0.001
BMI	0.14	0.15	0.123	0.206
Height (m)	0.077	0.433	0.018	0.851
Weight (kg)	0.193	0.047	0.131	0.178
Diabetes history (yes or no)	0.209	0.031	0.254	0.008
Smoking history (yes or no)	-0.079	0.419	0.049	0.618