抄録
Direct enlargement roentgenograms of the lumbar vertebral bodies were ex-amined on 129 subjects in the sixth and seventh decades composed of hypertensive patients and non-hypertensive controls from the out-patient clinics of the Tohoku University Hospital in Sendai, Japan.
The roentgenographic findings were classified into three grades accord-ing to osteoporotic changes. The incidence of osteoporotic change was found to be significantly higher in the sixties than in the fifties for females and also significantly higher in hypertensive than in non-hypertensive females.
