Relationship between hip bone mineral density and lumbar disc degeneration: A study in elderly subjects using an eight-level MRI-based disc degeneration grading system

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 916-920

  Wang, Yi Xiang J ^a   Kwok, Anthony W L ^a   Griffith, James F ^a   Leung, Jason C S ^a   Ma, Heather T ^a,b   Ahuja, Anil T ^a   Leung, Ping Chung ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Bone mineral density; Degeneration; Hip; Intervertebral disc; Lumbar spine; Osteopenia; Osteoporosis

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BONE DENSITY; CHINESE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HIP; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISEASE; LUMBAR DISK; LUMBAR DISK DEGENERATION; LUMBAR DISK SPACE NARROWING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOPENIA; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE DENSITY; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HIP; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OSTEOPOROSIS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 79953241464     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22518     Document Type: Article

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