Lifestyle factors and lumbar disc disease: Results of a German multi-center case-control study (EPILIFT)

Arthritis Research and Therapy

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Schumann, Barbara ^a,b   Bolm Audorff, Ulrich ^c   Bergmann, Annekatrin ^b   Ellegast, Rolf ^d   Elsner, Gine ^e   Grifka, Joachim ^f   Haerting, Johannes ^b   Jäger, Matthias ^g   Michaelis, Martina ^h   Seidler, Andreas ⁱ  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^c Occupational Health Division   (Germany)

^d INSTITUT FÜR ARBEITSSCHUTZ DER DEUTSCHEN GESETZLICHEN UNFALLVERSICHERUNG IFA   (Germany)

^e GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^g TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

ⁱ Institute and Policlinic for Occupational and Social Medicine   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY BUILDING; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; ENDURANCE SPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LUMBAR DISC NARROWING; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESISTANCE TRAINING; SMOKING; SPORT; WHOLE BODY VIBRATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; EXERCISE; GERMANY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LIFESTYLE; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SPINE DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LIFE STYLE; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SPINAL DISEASES; SPORTS;

EID: 77957916584     PISSN: 14786354     EISSN: 14786362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/ar3164     Document Type: Article

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