Genetic and Environmental Contributions to Back Pain in Old Age: A Study of 2,108 Danish Twins Aged 70 and Older

Spine

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 897-901

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

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

Author keywords

Back pain; Environment; Genes; Geriatrics; Heritability; Old age; Twin studies

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; BACKACHE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENMARK; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GERIATRICS; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SENESCENCE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACK PAIN; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DENMARK; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; INTERVIEWS; JOINT DISEASES; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ODDS RATIO; OSTEOPOROSIS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEX FACTORS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 1842682787     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-200404150-00015     Document Type: Review

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