Spine
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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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Retrospective study of data collected prospectively. ⋯ Predicting bone health status in ASR patients is possible with an ML approach. Additionally, data mining using ML can find unrecognized risk factors for bone health in ASR surgery patients.
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Retrospective comparison. ⋯ This study attempted to further validate a previously developed MRI-based BMD scoring system against QCT-derived measurements. VBQ score was found to be a significant predictor of osteoporosis and could differentiate between healthy and osteoporotic vertebrae.
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In vitro study. ⋯ 3.
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Prospective. ⋯ 3.