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The relationship between osteoarthritis and osteoporosis in the spine

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The degree of osteoarthritis and osteoporosis in the lumbar spine has been compared in patients with spinal osteoarthritis and osteoporotic fracturesand in a normal control group of 252 elderly subjects, to investigate the relationship between osteoarthritis and osteoporosis in the spine. The two indices were highly significantly different in the three groups (p<0.01). The degree of osteoarthritis in the osteoarthritic patients was higher (p<0.01) than in the fracture patients and the normal control subjects, while the degree of osteoporosis in the fracture patients was higher than in osteoarthritic patients and normal controls (p<0.01). These data support the conclusion that osteoarthritis and osteoporosis in the spine are inversely related.

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Dai, L.Y. The relationship between osteoarthritis and osteoporosis in the spine. Clin Rheumatol 17, 44–46 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01450957

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