Spine
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Multicenter Study
Patient Reported Data as Predictors of Surgical Outcome in Patients with Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy. Analysis of a National Multicenter Dataset.
Retrospective study design on prospectively collected registry data. ⋯ III.
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A case-control association study. ⋯ Level III.
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Retrospective cross-sectional analysis. ⋯ Subjects with hypercholesterolemia were 54% more likely to have neck pain after controlling for confounders. This suggests that hypercholesterolemia has a role to play in degeneration of the cervical spine. Therefore, prevention and proper management of high cholesterol may curtail the development and progression of degenerative cervical disk disease and thus, neck pain.
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In vitro study. ⋯ 3.