Evidence that bone mineral density plays a role in degenerative disc disease: The UK twin spine study

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 69, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2102-2106

  Livshits, Gregory ^a,b   Ermakov, Sergey ^b   Popham, Maria ^a   MacGregor, Alex J ^a,c   Sambrook, Philip N ^d   Spector, Timothy D ^a   Williams, Frances M K ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BONE DENSITY; CARTILAGE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HIP; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR DISK; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MANUAL LABOR; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SMOKING; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE DENSITY; DISEASES IN TWINS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649719859     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2010.131441     Document Type: Article

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