Identification of sex and age for Egyptians using computed tomography of the first lumbar vertebra

Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences

Table 3 The correlation between age and L1 measurements

Measurements	Pearson’s Correlation	P. value
Height of anterior of the body	0.329	0.000^b
Height of posterior border of body	0.263	0.001^a
Length of the vertebral foramen	−0.034	0.705
Upper end plate depth	0.349	0.000^b
Lower end plate depth	0.282	0.002^a
Transverse process distance	0.226	0.012^a
Vertebral length	0.404	0.000^b
Spinous process height	0.441	0.000^b
lower end plate width	0.321	0.000^b
Maximum width of the vertebral foramen	0.391	0.000^b
Upper end plate width	0.357	0.000^b
Transverse process diameter	0.121	0.182
Pedicle width	0.069	0.447
Spinous process length	0.412	0.000^b
Pedicle height	0.218	0.016^a