Robinson L R, Rubner D E, Wahl P W, Fujimoto W Y, Stolov W C
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle 98195.
Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 1993 Nov;74(11):1134-8.
Our purpose was to examine the effects of gender on nerve conduction results in healthy subjects. Fifty-four men, mean age 60.2 years and mean height 167cm, were compared with 62 women, mean age 62.2 years and mean height 153cm. We studied median, ulnar, sural, peroneal, and tibial nerves. Analyzing the raw data, women had significantly faster conduction velocities than men for all nerves except median motor (p < 0.05) three of four sensory amplitudes were larger in women and two of four motor amplitudes were larger in men (p < 0.05). After adjustment of the data for height, most statistically significant differences in conduction velocity disappeared, although differences in amplitude persisted. We conclude that most gender differences in nerve conduction velocity can be largely explained by height, whereas amplitude differences persist despite correction for height, temperature, and age.
我们的目的是研究性别对健康受试者神经传导结果的影响。将54名男性（平均年龄60.2岁，平均身高167厘米）与62名女性（平均年龄62.2岁，平均身高153厘米）进行比较。我们研究了正中神经、尺神经、腓肠神经、腓总神经和胫神经。分析原始数据时，除正中运动神经外，女性所有神经的传导速度均显著快于男性（p<0.05）；女性的四个感觉波幅中有三个较大，男性的四个运动波幅中有两个较大（p<0.05）。在对身高数据进行调整后，传导速度方面大多数具有统计学意义的差异消失了，尽管波幅差异仍然存在。我们得出结论，神经传导速度方面的大多数性别差异在很大程度上可以由身高来解释，而尽管对身高、温度和年龄进行了校正，波幅差异仍然存在。
