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Is oedema in the lumbar subcutaneous fat on routine MRI associated with age, gender, and BMI in patients with no history of cardiac, renal, or hepatic disease?
Is oedema in the lumbar subcutaneous fat on routine MRI associated with age, gender, and BMI in patients with no history of cardiac, renal, or hepatic disease?
Oedema in lumbar subcutaneous fat on routine MRI is significantly associated with obesity and age in patients without cardiac, renal, or hepatic disease.
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Should not alter MRI interpretation in practice; leaves open mechanisms linking lumbar fat oedema to age and obesity.
Objectives: To investigate the association between oedema in the subcutaneous fat of the lumbar region during routine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and patients’ age, gender and body mass index (BMI). Methods: One hundred and forty-nine consecutive examinations of 95 females and 54 males, 18 years and older, scanned at 1.5T between October 1, 2010, and December 31,
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