The incidence and risk factors for adjacent vertebral fractures in community-dwelling people with prevalent vertebral fracture: the 3rd and 4th survey of the ROAD study - Horii C, Asai Y, Iidaka T, Muraki S, Oka H, Tsutsui S, Hashizume H, Yamada H, Yoshida M, Kawaguchi H, Nakamura K, Akune T, Oshima Y, Tanaka S, Yoshimura N.

In this 3-year follow-up study of 66 community-dwelling adults with severely deformed vertebral fractures, the annual incidence of adjacent vertebral fracture (AVF) was 6.1%/year. Lower bone mineral density at the femoral neck and spinopelvic malalignment ...
Source: SafetyLit - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news