A large study presented at the North American Spine Society annual meeting has found a correlation between lower back pain and height and weight of patients, according to a NASS news release.
The study included more than 800,000 young adult Israel military recruits with lower back pain who were placed in one of two groups: recruits with subjective complaints of lower back pain and recruits with subjective complaints correlating to objective findings of lower back pain. The prevalence for low back complaints among male recruits in the group without objective findings was 5.2 percent and 0.2 percent among those with objective findings. For females, the prevalence was 2.7 percent for the group with no objective findings and 0.2 for the objective findings group.
The study shows correlation of low back pain among all patients with above-normal BMI and the risk for developing lower back pain increased as BMI rose. Height positively correlated with the prevalence of LBP in all patients.
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The study shows correlation of low back pain among all patients with above-normal BMI and the risk for developing lower back pain increased as BMI rose. Height positively correlated with the prevalence of LBP in all patients.
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