Prevalence and Predictors of Intense, Chronic, and Disabling Neck and Back Pain in the UK General Population
SpinePublished 1 June 2003
Roger T. Webb, T. Brammah, Mark Lunt, M. Urwin, T. Allison, Deborah Symmons
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Age, female gender, high body mass index, living in an area of raised material deprivation, and south Asian ethnicity were significant predictors of spinal pain with disability and obesity is an important independent predictor of back pain and its severity.
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Adjustment for pain at other sites enabled assessment of whether observed associations were with spinal pain itself or with the other sites of pain. Obesity is an important independent predictor of back pain and its severity. This has implications for primary prevention. The prevalence of spinal pain with disability continues to rise into old age. This has implications for healthcare planning.
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