Study of body mass (BMI) index and truncal asymmetry (TA) in healthy adolescents

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This article is part of the supplement: 6th International Conference on Conservative Management of Spinal Deformities .

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Study of body mass (BMI) index and truncal asymmetry (TA) in healthy adolescents

TB Grivas¹ , RG Burwell³, C Mihas², ES Vasiliadis², G Triantafyllopoulos¹ and A Kaspiris²

¹Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, "Tzanio" General Hospital - NHS, Tzani and Afendouli, 18536, Piraeus, Greece

²Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, "Thriasio" General Hospital - NHS, G, Gennimata Av, 19600, Magoula, Attica, Greece

³The Centre for Spinal Studies & Surgery, Nottingham University Hospitals Trust, Queen's Medical Centre Campus, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK, Bernardou 31 str. Brilissia, Attica, 15235, Greece

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from 6th International Conference on Conservative Management of Spinal Deformities
Lyon, France. 21-23 May 2009

Scoliosis 2009, 4(Suppl 2):O9doi:10.1186/1748-7161-4-S2-O9


Published:	14 December 2009

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Recent findings have linked BMI in girls with thoracic adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) to skeletal asymmetries of the spine and upper arm.