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Vol. 78, No. 6, June 1998, p. 612
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Laura E Gibbons, Tapio Videman, Michele Crites Battié and Jaakko Kaprio

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We appreciate Dr Beattie's good comments, and, in general, we agree with them. Two recent articles1,2 address some of his queries. With regard to the link between familial aggregation, cross-sectional area (CSA), and muscle performance and dynamic stability, we found the CSAs of the paraspinal muscles to be significantly associated with performance on an isokinetic lifting test (rho=.46–.53), although not with psychophysical lifting or static back muscle endurance.1 Familial aggregation accounted for 56% of the variance in isokinetic lifting, with CSA explaining less than 1% of the remaining variance. On the question of the temporal association between CSA and back symptoms, we found a weak, but significant, cross-sectional association between CSA and frequency of low back pain (LBP) in the preceding year, but we found no predictive power for CSA and future LBP among subjects with no LBP in the preceding year.2


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