Cumulative occupational lumbar load and lumbar disc disease – results of a German multi-center case-control study (EPILIFT)

Background The to date evidence for a dose-response relationship between physical workload and the development of lumbar disc diseases is limited. We therefore investigated the possible etiologic relevance of cumulative occupational lumbar load to lumbar disc diseases in a multi-center case-control...

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Published in:	BMC musculoskeletal disorders Vol. 10; no. 1; p. 48
Main Authors:	Seidler, Andreas, Bergmann, Annekatrin, Jäger, Matthias, Ellegast, Rolf, Ditchen, Dirk, Elsner, Gine, Grifka, Joachim, Haerting, Johannes, Hofmann, Friedrich, Linhardt, Oliver, Luttmann, Alwin, Michaelis, Martina, Petereit-Haack, Gabriela, Schumann, Barbara, Bolm-Audorff, Ulrich
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London BioMed Central 07.05.2009 BioMed Central Ltd BMC
Subjects:	Adult Aged Biomechanical Phenomena - physiology Care and treatment Case-Control Studies Causality Comorbidity Compressive Strength - physiology Diagnosis Epidemiology Female Germany - epidemiology Health aspects Humans Internal Medicine Intervertebral Disc - physiopathology Intervertebral Disc Displacement - epidemiology Intervertebral Disc Displacement - physiopathology Lumbar Vertebrae - physiopathology Lumber workers Male Medicine Medicine & Public Health Middle Aged Occupational diseases Occupational Diseases - epidemiology Occupational Diseases - physiopathology Occupational Exposure - prevention & control Occupational Exposure - statistics & numerical data Orthopedics Pain Rehabilitation Research Article Rheumatology Risk Factors Sex Distribution Sports Medicine Task Performance and Analysis Weight-Bearing - physiology Workload - statistics & numerical data Germany Lumbar Disc Herniation Physical Workload Lumbar Disc Case Group Occupational Disease
ISSN:	1471-2474, 1471-2474
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