Journal of Spine

Shenzhen Youth Spine Health Center, P.R. China

Publications

• Research Article   
  Prevalence of Abnormal Body Posture among Chinese Children and Adolescents: A Large Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study
  Author(s): Lei Yang, Xinhai Lu, Bin Yan and Yeen Huang*
  
  Background: Evidence showed that the poor body posture in adulthood is often formed from the childhood, and individuals with severe abnormal body posture may associated with the progress to scoliosis. However, there is still a lack of epidemiological evidence in the prevalence of adolescent abnormal body posture compared to scoliosis. To estimate the prevalence of abnormal body posture among children and adolescents, and to describe the epidemiological findings according to the demographic characteristics. Method: This is a population-based, cross-sectional study of school screening program in south China. We sample a large representative dataset comprising data collected from 1th to 12th graders using a multistage, stratified-cluster, random-sampling method. Our sample consisted of 158,584 childre.. Read More»
  

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