Prevalence of Osteoporosis and Sarcopenia in Middle-Aged Subjects with Low Back Pain

Abstract

Objective The genesis of both osteoporosis and sarcopenia is multifactorial, complicated, and interrelated. The present study has been undertaken to analyze the prevalence of low bone mineral density (BMD) and the pattern of imaging markers of sarcopenia (paraspinal skeletal muscle area [SMA] and skeletal muscle index [SMI] with respect to clinicodemographic profile in middle-aged patients (30–45 years) undergoing evaluation for low back pain (LBP).

Keywords

• low back pain
• bone mineral density
• osteoporosis
• sarcopenia
• skeletal muscle area
• skeletal muscle index