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Data process flow. Study subjects were identified from a nationwide cohort of 797,632 people from 1 January 2001 to 31 December 2005 and were divided into the lumbar spinal fusion group (n = 2,806), who received posterior lumbar fusion surgery, and the comparison group (n = 16,120) composed of age-, sex-, and propensity score-matched people
