Scoliosis in Elderly and Age-Related Bone Loss: A Population-Based Study |
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Authors: | Suphaneewan Jaovisidha MD Jong K Kim MD David J Sartoris MD Enrique Bosch MD Sharon Edelstein MSC Elizabeth Barrett-Connor MD Parichart Rojanaplakorn MSC |
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Institution: | Department of Radiology, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. |
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Abstract: | Osteoporosis, a common metabolic condition resulting in reduced bone mass, causes significant morbidity in affected individuals by predisposing them to osteoporotic fractures. To determine the relationship of scoliosis and osteoporosis, dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scans of 493 men and 762 women were analyzed according to their scoliotic status. No association was observed in the few scoliotic men without osteoarthritis of the spine compared to nonscoliotic men. Without osteoarthritis, scoliotic women had significantly decreased bone mass of the total hip and the femoral neck (p < 0.05) compared to nonscoliotic women, whereas in spine, bone mass was also decreased compared to nonscoliotic women, but not statistically significant. This suggests that scoliosis associates with bone loss, and affected women may benefit from early institution of therapeutic measures. |
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Keywords: | Scoliosis elderly bone loss osteoporosis |
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