Metabolic Syndrome Components Are Associated with Intervertebral Disc Degeneration: The Wakayama Spine Study.

Metabolic Syndrome Components Are Associated with Intervertebral Disc Degeneration: The Wakayama Spine Study.

The objective of the present study was to examine the associations between metabolic syndrome (MS) components, such as overweight (OW), hypertension (HT), dyslipidemia (DL), and impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), and intervertebral disc degeneration (DD).The present study included 928 participants (3...

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Main Authors: Masatoshi Teraguchi, Noriko Yoshimura, Hiroshi Hashizume, Shigeyuki Muraki, Hiroshi Yamada, Hiroyuki Oka, Akihito Minamide, Yuyu Ishimoto, Keiji Nagata, Ryohei Kagotani, Sakae Tanaka, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Kozo Nakamura, Toru Akune, Munehito Yoshida
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4739731?pdf=render

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