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Old 03-14-2007, 02:52 AM
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I've been attending SAS, NASS, and many other spine conferences for 5 years now. I spend a ton of time with many of the best surgeons ADR surgeons in the world and when we meet, it's all spine all the time. I've not run the numbers, but I believe that the distribution of my spine friends and clients is about 50-50. I've never heard of issues with multi-level ADR being attributed to sex. (There can be some good jokes here, but I'm too tired now.)

I've seen a lot of presentations with very detailed breakdowns of results by all types of categories you can imagine and have not seen anyone suggest that sex is a significant factor (beyond the higher risk of osteoporosis in women.)
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