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Endplate Defect Is Heritable, Associated With Low Back Pain and Triggers Intervertebral Disc Degeneration: A Longitudinal Study From TwinsUK.
Spine - 1 Nov 2018
Munir Sabrina, Freidin Maxim B, Rade Marinko, Määttä Juhani, Livshits Gregory, Williams Frances M K
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STUDY DESIGN: Longitudinal study of spine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in a large-scale population-based study. OBJECTIVE: To determine the order of appearance of degenerative change in vertebral bodies and intervertebral discs. We also sought to define the influence of endplate defect on low back pain (LBP) and to determine whether there is a genetic influence on endplate defect. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:...
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