A Radiographic Study on the Associations of Age and Prevalence of Vertebral Fractures with Abdominal Aortic Calcification in Japanese Postmenopausal Women and Men

<table class="table-group" width="800px"><tr class="fig-image" id="a"><td><img alt="748380.fig.001a" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/jos/volume-2010/748380/figures/748380.fig.001a.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(a) </b>Radiographs (lateral views) of the thoracic and lumbar spine in a man</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><img alt="748380.fig.001b" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/jos/volume-2010/748380/figures/748380.fig.001b.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(b) </b>Radiographs (lateral views) of the thoracic and lumbar spine in a woman</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<table>Radiographs (lateral views) of the thoracic and lumbar spine in a man (a) and a woman (b). Abdominal aortic calcification is prominently displayed on routine lateral lumbar spine radiographs as the dense calcium mineral deposits in the aorta of subjects with osteoporotic vertebral fractures.</table>

Journal of Osteoporosis

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Figure 1: A Radiographic Study on the Associations of Age and Prevalence of Vertebral Fractures with Abdominal Aortic Calcification in Japanese Postmenopausal Women and Men 

Figure 1 | A Radiographic Study on the Associations of Age and Prevalence of Vertebral Fractures with Abdominal Aortic Calcification in Japanese Postmenopausal Women and Men 