Is greater lumbar vertebral BMD associat
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Yue Wang; Steven K Boyd; Michele C BattiΓ©; Yutaka Yasui; Tapio Videman
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Article
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2011
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American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
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English
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It is well documented that osteoarthritis is associated with greater BMD in peripheral extremities. Yet the relationship between vertebral BMD and disk degeneration (DD) remains controversial in the lumbar spine, which may be due largely to the inadequacies of BMD and DD measures. Aiming to clarify