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This study aimed to explore the effect of sex on the diagnostic efficacy of the VBQ in predicting osteopenia\/osteoporosis and whether a sex-specific threshold exists.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title>METHODS<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>In this retrospective cohort study, patients who underwent lumbar fusion at a tertiary care center were reviewed. VBQ was obtained by noncontrast T1-weighted MRI. Patients were stratified according to sex and bone density. Data were analyzed between the groups. Pearson correlation analysis and linear regression were used to analyze the correlation between the VBQ and DEXA T values. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis, including area under the curve (AUC) calculation, was used to evaluate the predictive performance of VBQ for low BMD in both sexes.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title>RESULTS<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>A total of 271 patients (92 male, 179 female patients) were analyzed. The correlation coefficient between VBQ and the lowest T value was \u22120.40 for male and \u22120.554 for female patients. In comparing the bone density subgroups, among male patients a significant difference in the VBQ scores was observed only between the normal and osteoporosis subgroups (p = 0.012). VBQ demonstrated statistically significant differences among female patients across all three subgroups (p &lt; 0.001). The ROC analysis revealed that the predictive performance of VBQ in detecting low BMD was more consistent with the gold-standard DEXA results in female than in male patients (AUC 0.647 vs AUC 0.823, p = 0.02). The optimal thresholds were similar in both sexes.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title>CONCLUSIONS<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>Compared with male patients, VBQ has better discrimination between female patients with low BMD and those with normal bone density. Although the correlation between VBQ and bone density is weaker in male than in female patients, the optimal thresholds are similar in both sexes.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3171\/2023.10.spine23721","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,12,30]],"date-time":"2023-12-30T01:44:24Z","timestamp":1703900664000},"page":"405-411","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Sex differences in the accuracy of vertebral bone quality score assessing bone density in patients undergoing lumbar spinal fusion"],"prefix":"10.3171","volume":"40","author":[{"given":"*Yunsheng","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei; and"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Orthopedic Biomechanics of Hebei Province, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Feng","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei; and"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Orthopedic Biomechanics of Hebei Province, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Tong","family":"Tong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei; and"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Orthopedic Biomechanics of Hebei Province, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Dechao","family":"Miao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei; and"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Orthopedic Biomechanics of Hebei Province, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Wenshuai","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei; and"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Orthopedic Biomechanics of Hebei Province, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Houze","family":"Zhu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei; and"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Orthopedic Biomechanics of Hebei Province, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xiao","family":"Zheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei; and"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Orthopedic Biomechanics of Hebei Province, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Linfeng","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei; and"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Orthopedic Biomechanics of Hebei Province, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1754","reference":[{"issue":"7","key":"b1","series-title":"Spine (Phila Pa 1976).","first-page":"E406","article-title":"Prevalence of osteoporosis in patients undergoing lumbar fusion for lumbar degenerative diseases: a combination of DXA and Hounsfield units","volume":"45","author":"Zou D","year":"2020","unstructured":"Zou D, Jiang S, Zhou S,  Prevalence of osteoporosis in patients undergoing lumbar fusion for lumbar degenerative diseases: a combination of DXA and Hounsfield units. 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