Abstracts tagged "obesity and longitudinal studies"

Abstract Number: 2794 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Predictors of Incident and Worsening Lumbar Spine Degeneration: The Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project
Adam Goode¹, Rebecca Cleveland ², David Hu ³, Steven George ⁴, Virginia Byers Kraus ⁵, Todd Schwartz ⁶, Richard Gracely ⁷, Louis DeFrate ⁸, Joanne Jordan ⁹ and Yvonne Golightly ¹⁰, ¹Duke University, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Duke Clinical Research Institute, and Department of Population Health Sciences, Durham, NC, ²Thurston Arthritis Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, ³Thurston Arthritis Center, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁴Duke University, Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC, ⁵Duke University, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Duke Molecular Physiology Laboratory, Durham, NC, ⁶University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Biostatistics, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁷Department of Endodontics, Adams School of Dentistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁸Duke University, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Durhham, NC, ⁹University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Thurston Arthritis Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, ¹⁰University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Epidemiology and Thurston Arthritis Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC
Background/Purpose: Our aim was to determine whether demographics, clinical characteristics or appendicular joint osteoarthritis predict the incidence and worsening of lumbar spine disc space narrowing…

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