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Mercedes Lopez-Ramos
Researcher at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Publications - 1
Citations - 70
Mercedes Lopez-Ramos is an academic researcher from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 65 citations.
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Histological analysis of surgical lumbar intervertebral disc tissue provides evidence for an association between disc degeneration and increased body mass index
Christoph Weiler,Mercedes Lopez-Ramos,H. Michael Mayer,Andreas Korge,Christoph J. Siepe,Karin Wuertz,Véronique Weiler,Norbert Boos,Andreas G. Nerlich +8 more
TL;DR: This study demonstrated that histological disc alterations in surgical specimens can be graded in a reliable manner based on a quantitative histologic degeneration score (HDS), and increased BMI was identified as a positive risk factor for the development of symptomatic, clinically significant disc degeneration.