Jung, Matthias http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1124-4284
Rospleszcz, Susanne
Löffler, Maximilian T.
Walter, Sven S.
Maurer, Elke
Jungmann, Pia M.
Peters, Annette
Nattenmüller, Johanna
Schlett, Christopher L.
Bamberg, Fabian
Kiefer, Lena S.
Diallo, Thierno D.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universitätsklinikum Freiburg
Article History
Received: 1 March 2022
Revised: 11 August 2022
Accepted: 5 September 2022
First Online: 14 October 2022
Declarations
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Thierno D. Diallo.
: Susanne Rospleszcz and Annette Peters are affiliated with the Helmholtz Zentrum München and were involved in the study design, collection, analysis, and interpretation of data and in the decision to submit the manuscript for publication
: One of the authors, Susanne Rospleszc, has significant statistical expertise.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects (patients) in this study.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained.
: Some study subjects have been previously reported in studies based on cohort from the “Cooperative Health Research in the Region of Augsburg” (KORA) [CitationRef removed, CitationRef removed]. Exemplary publications that included analyses of the variables: paraspinal muscle, bone marrow fat, and intervertebral disc degeneration will be listed in an additional file. None of these studies analyzed the correlation of the respective variables or their association with each other.
: 1. Holle R, Happich M, Lowel H, Wichmann HE, Group MKS (2005) KORA--a research platform for population based health research. Gesundheitswesen 67 Suppl 1:S19-252. Bamberg F, Hetterich H, Rospleszcz S et al (2017) Subclinical Disease Burden as Assessed by Whole-Body MRI in Subjects With Prediabetes, Subjects With Diabetes, and Normal Control Subjects From the General Population: The KORA-MRI Study. Diabetes 66:158-169
: • retrospective• cross sectional study• multicenter study