Chaput CD, et al. - Researchers retrospectively analyzed 214 sequential trauma patients between the ages of 29-50 to determine if truncal obesity is associated with calcifications of the spine in non-elderly adults. They examined full spine CT imaging for bone formation in the region of the anterior longitudinal ligament and annulus (ALL), posterior longitudinal ligament and annulus (PLL), and the ligamentum flavum (LF). Findings revealed an independent association of LF calcification with truncal obesity. Hence in calcification, obesity seems to play a greater role than could be accounted for by simply age-related degeneration or gender.