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Evidence that bone mineral density plays a role in degenerative disc disease: the UK Twin Spine Study

OBJECTIVE: Osteoarthritis (OA) and osteoporosis are often considered to lie at opposite ends of a spectrum of bone phenotypes. Lumbar degenerative disc disease (LDD) may be associated with low back pain (LBP) and is similar in many ways to OA. LDD is reported in small studies to be associated with i...

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Autores principales: Livshits, Gregory, Ermakov, Sergey, Popham, Maria, MacGregor, Alex J, Sambrook, Philip N, Spector, Timothy D, Williams, Frances M K
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Group 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3002767/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20570838
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ard.2010.131441