A STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF TYPE 2 DIABETES I MELLITUS ON THE LUMBOSACRAL SPINE IN POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN

Hemmat Mustafa Abdullah Abu Omar;

Abstract


This study was done to assess low back pain severity and the radiological degenerative changes in the lumbosacral spine in diabetic (type 2 DM) versus non-diabetic postmenopausal
women.


This study was carried out on one hundred female patients,

50 had type 2 diabetes mellitus diagnosed according to the diagnosis and classification of the World Health Organization (1999), and the other 50 are non-diabetics,bothhad low back pain for more than 3 months. Age of both diabetic and non• diabetic groups ranged between 45 -60 years, with the body mass index (BMI) ranged between 20- <30, and their body weight did not exceed 75 kilograms, with absence of any back
trauma and/or surgical interference.




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All the patients participated in this work were housewives.


Excluded from this study, multipara (those with 4 or more children), patients having spondylolisthesis, sacralization, lumbaralization, spina bifida, sacroiliitis and patients that their work necessitates heavy object lifting were also excluded.


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Title A STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF TYPE 2 DIABETES I MELLITUS ON THE LUMBOSACRAL SPINE IN POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN
Other Titles دراسة تاثير مرض البول السكرى من النوع الثانى على الفقرات القطنية والعجزية فى السيدات فى مرحلة ما بعد انقطاع الطمث
Authors Hemmat Mustafa Abdullah Abu Omar
Issue Date 2005

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