Familial history, age and smoking are important risk factors for disc degeneration disease in Arabic pedigrees

European Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 643-651

  Livshits, Gregory ^a   Cohen, Zvi ^b   Higla, Orabi ^b   Yakovenko, Konstantin ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Ichilov Municipal Hospital   (Israel)

Author keywords

Genetic model; Heritability; Intervertebral disc; Major gene; Segregation analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ASIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COVARIANCE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEDIGREE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING;

EID: 0035740384     PISSN: 03932990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015503329989     Document Type: Article

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