Is this back pain killing me? All-cause and cardiovascular-specific mortality in older Danish twins with spinal pain. Older people reporting spinal pain have 13% increased risk of mortality per years lived but the connection is not causal. We found no association between spinal pain and cardiovascular-specific mortality. The influence of shared familial factors is unlikely.
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