title: The relationship between osteoarthritis and osteoporosis in the spine.
abstract: The degree of osteoarthritis and osteoporosis in the lumbar spine has been compared in patients with spinal osteoarthritis and osteoporotic fractures and in a normal control group of 252 elderly subjects, to investigate the relationship between osteoarthritis and osteoporosis in the spine. The two indices were highly significantly different in the three groups (p<0.01). The degree of osteoarthritis in the osteoarthritic patients was higher (p<0.01) than in the fracture patients and the normal control subjects, while the degree of osteoporosis in the fracture patients was higher than in osteoarthritic patients and normal controls (p<0.01). These data support the conclusion that osteoarthritis and osteoporosis in the spine are inversely related.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedics, Changzheng Hospital, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: L Y
authors.initials: LY
authors.lastname: Dai
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010003:Osteoarthritis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D010024:Osteoporosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011859:Radiography; D012016:Reference Values; D013122:Spinal Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging