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Table 1 BME and degenerative changes at SIJ MRI in the three departments of radiology at Lillebaelt Hospital

From: The incidence of bone marrow oedema at the sacroiliac joints in a non-rheumatological population — a retrospective cohort study

 

Total

Vejle

Middelfart

Kolding

p-value

Age, years (SD)

33.1 (7.89)

32.4 (7.37)

33.7 (7.99)

32.1 (8.22)

0.601

Sex, n (%)

    

0.212

 Male

106 (31.8)

35 (39.3)

54 (29.2)

17 (28.8)

 

 Female

227 (68.2)

54 (60.7)

131 (70.8)

42 (71.2)

 

MRI, n (%)

 BME

63 (18.9)

24 (27.0)

30 (16.2)

9 (15.3)

0.082

 Non-BME

270 (81.1)

65 (73.0)

155 (83.8)

50 (84.7)

 

 Degenerative. changes

17 (5.1)

4 (4.5)

12 (6.5)

1 (1.7)

0.332

  1. 1One-way ANOVA, 2Pearsons Chi2 test