Effect of Age and Lordotic Angle on the Level of Lumbar Disc Herniation

It has been previously suggested in the literature that with aging, degenerative changes as well as disc herniation start at the lower lumbar segments, with higher disc involvement observed in an ascending fashion in older age groups. We conducted a study to investigate this correlation between age...

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Veröffentlicht in:Advances in Orthopedics 2011-01, Vol.2011 (2011), p.156-161
Hauptverfasser: Ayoub, Chakib M., Skaf, Ghassan S., Domloj, Nathalie T., Turbay, Massud J., El-Zein, Cherine, Hourani, Mukbil H.
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Zusammenfassung:It has been previously suggested in the literature that with aging, degenerative changes as well as disc herniation start at the lower lumbar segments, with higher disc involvement observed in an ascending fashion in older age groups. We conducted a study to investigate this correlation between age and level of disc herniation, and to associate it with the magnitude of the Lumbar Lordotic Angle (LLA), as measured by Cobb’s method. We followed retrospectively lumbosacral spine MRI’s of 1419 patients with symptomatic disc herniation. Pearson’s correlation was used in order to investigate the relationship between LLA, age, and level of disc herniation. Student’s t-test was applied to assess gender differences. Young patients were found to have higher LLA (R=0.44, P
ISSN:2090-3464
2090-3472
2090-3472
DOI:10.4061/2011/950576