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Table 1 Study population characteristics

From: Association of quadriceps muscle, gluteal muscle, and femoral bone marrow composition using chemical shift encoding-based water-fat MRI: a preliminary study in healthy young volunteers

 

Males (n = 15)

Females (n = 15)

p value

Age (years)

30.47 ± 4.90

29.87 ± 7.13

0.790

Body mass index (kg/m2)

26.25, 5.50

26.13, 2.77

0.300

PDFFgluteus (%)

5.25 ± 1.73

5.49 ± 1.83

0.707

PDFFquadriceps (%)

2.53 ± 1.00

2.65 ± 1.02

0.714

PDFFfemoral head (%)

86.29 ± 8.25

83.69 ± 6.07

0.047*

PDFFfemoral neck (%)

73.31 ± 10.59

62.87 ± 8.70

0.006*

PDFFfemoral greater trochanter (%)

92.13 ± 2.20

90.26 ± 2.39

0.034*

  1. Data are given as mean ± standard deviation for age and PDFF, and as median and interquartile range for body mass index. PDFF, Proton density fat fraction
  2. *Statistical significance (p < 0.05)