| Literature DB >> 1826597 |
D P Symmons1, A M van Hemert, J P Vandenbroucke, H A Valkenburg.
Abstract
The natural history of low back pain was evaluated over a nine year period in two groups of middle aged Dutch women selected from the general population. One group had recurrent back pain (n = 236) and the other group had never experienced back pain (n = 241). At the onset of the study recurrent back pain was associated with smoking, previous use of the 'pill', pain in other joints, frequent headaches, and restricted lumbar spine movement. Nine years later 170 (72%) of the group with back pain had continuing pain and 58 (24%) of the group without previous back pain had incident pain. Pain in other joints, especially the hip and knee, was a predictor of continuing and incident pain but age, body mass index, and smoking were not.Entities:
Keywords: Behavior; Chronic Diseases; Community Surveys; Contraception; Contraceptive History; Contraceptive Methods; Contraceptive Usage; Cystitis; Data Analysis; Developed Countries; Diseases; Europe; Family Planning; Follow-up Studies; Headache; Longitudinal Studies; Multivariate Analysis; Netherlands; Oral Contraceptives; Pain; Previous Practice; Prospective Studies; Repeated Rounds Of Survey; Research Methodology; Sampling Studies; Signs And Symptoms; Smoking; Statistical Studies; Studies; Survey Methodology; Surveys; Western Europe
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Year: 1991 PMID： 1826597 PMCID： PMC1004365 DOI： 10.1136/ard.50.3.158
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Ann Rheum Dis ISSN： 0003-4967 Impact factor: 19.103