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Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on July 20, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48(10):1181-1182; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep213
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Editorial

Musculoskeletal health—how early does it start?

Fiona M. Blyth1,2,3, Gareth T. Jones3 and Gary J. Macfarlane3

1University of Sydney Pain Management and Research Institute, Royal North Shore Hospital, 2School of Public Health, University of Sydney, St Leonards, Australia and 3Aberdeen Pain Research Collaboration (Epidemiology Group), School of Medicine, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland.

Correspondence to: Fiona M. Blyth, Pain Management and Research Institute, Royal North Shore Hospital, University of Sydney, St Leonards, NSW 2065, Australia. E-mail: fblyth@med.usyd.edu.au

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Events that occur early in human development can influence adult health profoundly. For example, Norwegians who were born during the Winter Famine of World War Two had a strikingly lower risk of colorectal cancer as adults when compared with adults who were born either before or after the war [1]. Less starkly unfavourable intrauterine environments that result in low birth weight babies have been repeatedly linked to adverse health effects in adult life [2]. The greatest burden of musculoskeletal conditions is borne by adults in mid- and later life, and it may therefore come as . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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