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## Abstract ## Context The contribution of lumbar scoliosis to osteoporosis is unknown. ## Objective This work aimed to determine the prevalence and relationship of lumbar scoliosis to osteoporosis in aging women. ## Methods A cross-sectional analysis used dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scans of randomly selected groups of postmenopausal women (64-68, 74-78, and 84-88 years; N = 300 each) in a university teaching hospital from 2014 to 2019. Lumbar Cobb angle was tested for an association to femoral neck (FN), total hip (TH), and spine T score, age, weight, and ethnicity. Logistic regression tested an association between scoliosis (Cobb angle > 10°) and osteoporosis (T score ≤ –2.5). Available sequential DXA scans (N = 51) were analyzed for changes in Cobb angle using a linear mixed model of these longitudinal data. ## Results Osteoporosis and Cobb angle both increased with age: from 22% and 4.4 (SD = 7.8) respectively in 64- to 68-year-olds to 32.9% and to 9.7 (SD = 9.2) in women age 84 to 88 years. The prevalence of clinically significant scoliosis rose from 11.5% in the youngest group, to 27.3% and 39.4% in the age 74 to 78 and 84 to 88 cohorts, respectively. Cobb angle i

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Author

Janet Rubin; Rebecca J Cleveland; Alexander Padovano; David Hu; Maya Styner; James Sanders

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)