Prevalence of Osteoporosis and Sarcopenia in Middle-Aged Subjects with Low Back Pain
oleh: Shamrendra Narayan, Rishabh Pratap, Gaurav Raj, Abhishek Chauhan, Tushant Kumar, Neha Singh, Ajai Kumar Singh, Nikhil Gupta
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| Diterbitkan: | Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. |
Deskripsi
Objective The genesis of both osteoporosis and sarcopenia is multifactorial, complicated, and interrelated. The present study has been undertaken to analyze the prevalence of low bone mineral density (BMD) and the pattern of imaging markers of sarcopenia (paraspinal skeletal muscle area [SMA] and skeletal muscle index [SMI] with respect to clinicodemographic profile in middle-aged patients (30–45 years) undergoing evaluation for low back pain (LBP).