Small effect of genetic factors on neck pain in old age: A study of 2,108 Danish twins 70 years of age and older

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Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 206-208

  Hartvigsen, Jan ^a,b   Pedersen, Hans Christian ^b   Frederiksen, Henrik ^b   Christensen, Kaare ^b  

^a NORDIC INSTITUTE OF CHIROPRACTIC AND CLINICAL BIOMECHANICS   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Environment; Genes; Geriatrics; Heritability; Neck pain; Old age; Twin study

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DENMARK; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC RISK; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NECK PAIN; OSTEOARTHRITIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TWINS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COMORBIDITY; DENMARK; DISEASES IN TWINS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NECK PAIN; ODDS RATIO; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 14844282041     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000150481.84048.08     Document Type: Article

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