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Figure 1

From: Associations between back pain across adulthood and spine shape in early old age in a British birth cohort

Figure 1

(a) Shows representative DXA images of the NSHD cohort sorted by their spine mode (SM) 1 score, with the template used to mark the anatomical landmarks of the vertebral bodies overlaid onto the image and (b) illustrates the variation in lumbar spine shape and the percentage variance detected by spine modes (SM) 1 to 8 shown as ± 2 SD from the mean of zero for the whole cohort.

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