The correlation analysis between sagittal alignment and cross-sectional area of paraspinal muscle in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis and degenerative spondylolisthesis

Table 4 Correlation coefficient analysis of SMM and CSAs of PS and MF. PS; Psoas, MF; Multifidus, CSA; Cross-Sectional Area. ***p< 0.001 indicates significant differences between groups

	SMM	PS AveCSA (L3-L4)	PS AveCSA (L4-L5)	PS AveCSA (L5-S1)	MF AveCSA (L3-L4)	MF AveCSA (L4-L5)	MF AveCSA (L5-S1)
SMM	1.000	0.723***	0.739***	0.654***	0.546***	0.582***	0.563***
PS AveCSA (L3-L4)	0.723***	1.000	0.877***	0.646***	0.500***	0.585***	0.496***
PS AveCSA (L4-L5)	0.739***	0.877***	1.000	0.797***	0.509***	0.566***	0.506***
PS AveCSA (L5-S1)	0.654***	0.646***	0.797***	1.000	0.343***	0.393***	0.420***
MF AveCSA (L3-L4)	0.546***	0.500***	0.509***	0.343***	1.000	0.690***	0.538***
MF AveCSA (L4-L5)	0.582***	0.585***	0.566***	0.393***	0.690***	1.000	0.682***
MF AveCSA (L5-S1)	0.563***	0.496***	0.506***	0.420***	0.538***	0.682***	1.000

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