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

Muthuri, Stella G.Pavlova, AnastasiaSaunders, Fiona R.Hardy, Rebecca J.Gregory, Jennifer S.Barr, Rebecca J.Martin, Kathryn R.Adams, Judith E.Kuh, DianaAspden, Richard M.Cooper, Rachel2018-11-092018-11-092018-11-05Muthuri, S G, Pavlova, A, Saunders, F R, Hardy, R J, Gregory, J S, Barr, R J, Martin, K R, Adams, J E, Kuh, D, Aspden, R M & Cooper, R 2018, 'Associations between back pain across adulthood and spine shape in early old age in a British birth cohort', Scientific Reports, vol. 8, 16309. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-34628-92045-2322ORCID: /0000-0001-7130-6777/work/50559302http://hdl.handle.net/2164/11412We wish to acknowledge the crucial role of Professor Judith E Adams (deceased 30 September 2017) in undertaking this project. We thank the NSHD study members for their participation in the study and continual support. We also thank Dr Michael Machin for assisting with obtaining the DXA images and the University of Aberdeen Data Management Team for programming support for ‘Shape’ software. The authors are grateful to the NSHD scientific and data collection teams at the following centres: MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing; Wellcome Trust (WT) Clinical Research Facility (CRF) Manchester; WTCRF and Medical Physics at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh; WTCRF and Department of Nuclear Medicine at University Hospital Birmingham; WTCRF and the Department of Nuclear Medicine at University College London Hospital; CRF and the Department of Medical Physics at the University Hospital of Wales; CRF and Twin Research Unit at St Thomas’ Hospital London. Funding The NSHD is funded by the UK Medical Research Council. SGM, RC, RJH and DK are supported by the UK Medical Research Council (Programme codes: MC_UU_12019/1, MC_UU_12019/2 and MC_UU_12019/4). This project was funded by the UK Medical Research Council (Grant MR/L010399/1) which supported SGM, AVP and FRS. The funders of the study had no role in study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation or writing of this manuscript.1258280engboneepidemiologyR Medicine (General)Medical Research Council (MRC)MC_UU_12019/1MC_UU_12019/2MC_UU_12019/4MR/L010399/1R1Associations between back pain across adulthood and spine shape in early old age in a British birth cohortJournal article10.1038/s41598-018-34628-98