Table 1 Age, BMI and lordotic angles of the total sample and the two groups.

AGE (years)

58.63

(59.97-57.29)

56.37

(57.63-55.11)

57.3

(58.61-55.99)

p = 0.309

BMI (kg/m ² )

28.45

(29.35-27.55)

29.48

(30.28-28.68)

29.03

(29.88-28.18)

p = 0.732

L1 - L5 (deg)

39.53

(42.24-36.82)

39.73

(41.9-37.56)

39.64

(42.05-37.23)

p = 0.616

L1 - S1 (deg)

52.31

(54.69-49.93)

53.05

(55.55-50.55)

52.72

(55.16-50.28)

p = 0.672

L5 - S1 (deg)

14.54

(15.62-13.46)

14.80

(15.96-13.64)

14.68

(15.8-13.56)

p = 0.564