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Self-reported hard physical work combined with heavy smoking or overweight may result in so-called Modic changes

BACKGROUND: Recently, the MRI finding of "Modic changes" has been identified as pathologic spinal condition that probably reflects a vertebral inflammatory process (VIP), which coincides with spinal pain in most. We hypothesized that heavy smoking in combination with macro- or repeated mic...

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Autores principales: Leboeuf-Yde, Charlotte, Kjær, Per, Bendix, Tom, Manniche, Claus
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2248578/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18194532
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-9-5