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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2021

Risk Factors of Intervertebral Disc Pathology-A Point of View Formerly and Today-A Review.

Nicol Zielinska, Michał Podgórski, Robert Haładaj, Michał Polguj, Łukasz Olewnik

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Association ofMedicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025
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  4. Development and validation of a prognostic prediction model for lumbar-disc herniation based on machine learning and fusion of clinical text data and radiomic features.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2026
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  14. Biology · 2024
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  19. Genetic predisposition ofCell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.) · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Nicol ZielinskaDepartment of Anatomical Dissection and Donation, Medical University of Lodz, 90-752 Lodz, Poland.ORCID 0000-0001-9851-7769
Michał PodgórskiDepartment of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging, Polish Mother's Memorial Hospital Research Institute, 93-338 Lodz, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-4513-0602
Robert HaładajDepartment of Normal and Clinical Anatomy, Chair of Anatomy and Histology, Medical University of Lodz, 90-752 Lodz, Poland.
Michał PolgujDepartment of Normal and Clinical Anatomy, Chair of Anatomy and Histology, Medical University of Lodz, 90-752 Lodz, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-4146-4998
Łukasz OlewnikDepartment of Anatomical Dissection and Donation, Medical University of Lodz, 90-752 Lodz, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-6414-9504

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intervertebral disc pathology is a common disorder that can be caused by genetic, mechanical, and behavioral factors; however, it is possible to slow its progression. Although environmental and behavioral factors were previously considered to be the sole causes of intervertebral disc pathologies such as disc herniation, recent studies have shown that genetic factors also play an important role. This review compares the perception of major risk factors from the last and present centuries. It also examines individual genetic and non-genetic factors acting as risk factors, as well as some approaches for preventing intervertebral disc pathologies, and compares available statistics regarding disc herniation.

Indexed as

cervicaldisc herniationfactorslumbarpreventionreviewstatisticsthoracic

Identifiers

PMID33494410
PMCPMC7865549

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