Quantitative assessment of abdominal aortic calcification and associations with lumbar intervertebral disc height loss: The Framingham Study

Spine Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 315-323

  Suri, Pradeep ^a,b,c,d   Hunter, David J ^d,e   Rainville, James ^b,d   Guermazi, Ali ^f   Katz, Jeffrey N ^g  

^a VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

^d NEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^f BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Degeneration; Intervertebral disc; Lumbar; Spine; Vascular diseases

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTIC CALCIFICATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CALCIFICATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISC HEIGHT LOSS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISEASE; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SMOKING;

AORTA, ABDOMINAL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DISPLACEMENT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

EID: 84861802417     PISSN: 15299430     EISSN: 18781632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spinee.2012.03.033     Document Type: Article

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