Assertion: ankylosing spondylitis | /r/Causes | brittle spine
Facets:
value: according to rodney tehrani
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Ankylosing spondylitis can also cause a more brittle spine, which can lead to insufficiency fractures, a type of stress fracture that results from normal stress applied to abnormal bone, according to Rodney Tehrani, MD, professor of allergy, immunology, and rheumatology, and the rheumatology division director at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago.