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Back pain reporting in young girls appears to be puberty-related

BACKGROUND: There is a large increase in back pain reporting in the early teens. In no previous study has the prevalence of low back pain been investigated in relation to the onset of puberty. The objective of this study was to establish whether the onset of puberty is associated with back pain repo...

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Autores principales: Wedderkopp, Niels, Bo Andersen, Lars, Froberg, Karsten, Leboeuf-Yde, Charlotte
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1291369/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16262898
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-6-52
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author Wedderkopp, Niels
Bo Andersen, Lars
Froberg, Karsten
Leboeuf-Yde, Charlotte
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Bo Andersen, Lars
Froberg, Karsten
Leboeuf-Yde, Charlotte
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description BACKGROUND: There is a large increase in back pain reporting in the early teens. In no previous study has the prevalence of low back pain been investigated in relation to the onset of puberty. The objective of this study was to establish whether the onset of puberty is associated with back pain reporting in young girls. METHODS: A subsample of 254 girls aged 8–10 years and 165 girls aged 14–16 years from a cross-sectional survey of 481 children aged 8–10 years and 325 adolescents aged 14–16 years of both sexes. Main outcome measures were back pain defined as low back pain, mid back pain, and/or neck pain in the past month. Other variables of interest were Puberty (five different stages), age, body mass index, and smoking. Independent information on onset of puberty was obtained through a physical examination and on back pain through an individual structured interview. The association was studied between onset of puberty and the outcome variable (the one month period prevalence of back pain), controlling for overweight, and smoking. Odds ratios with 95% confidence intervals were used to describe bivariate associations, logistic regression with robust standard errors was used for multivariate analyses. RESULTS: There is a highly significant trend for increased back pain reporting with increasing level of puberty until maturity is reached. The biggest leap appears between the second level (beginning of puberty) and the third level (mid puberty) and the findings remain after controlling for the covariates. These results emanate from the low back, whereas pain in the mid back and neck do not seem to be linked with pubertal stage. CONCLUSION: In girls, the reporting of low back pain increases in frequency during puberty until maturity, regardless of age. Why some girls are susceptible to back pain in the early stage of puberty is unknown.
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spelling pubmed-12913692005-11-26 Back pain reporting in young girls appears to be puberty-related Wedderkopp, Niels Bo Andersen, Lars Froberg, Karsten Leboeuf-Yde, Charlotte BMC Musculoskelet Disord Research Article BACKGROUND: There is a large increase in back pain reporting in the early teens. In no previous study has the prevalence of low back pain been investigated in relation to the onset of puberty. The objective of this study was to establish whether the onset of puberty is associated with back pain reporting in young girls. METHODS: A subsample of 254 girls aged 8–10 years and 165 girls aged 14–16 years from a cross-sectional survey of 481 children aged 8–10 years and 325 adolescents aged 14–16 years of both sexes. Main outcome measures were back pain defined as low back pain, mid back pain, and/or neck pain in the past month. Other variables of interest were Puberty (five different stages), age, body mass index, and smoking. Independent information on onset of puberty was obtained through a physical examination and on back pain through an individual structured interview. The association was studied between onset of puberty and the outcome variable (the one month period prevalence of back pain), controlling for overweight, and smoking. Odds ratios with 95% confidence intervals were used to describe bivariate associations, logistic regression with robust standard errors was used for multivariate analyses. RESULTS: There is a highly significant trend for increased back pain reporting with increasing level of puberty until maturity is reached. The biggest leap appears between the second level (beginning of puberty) and the third level (mid puberty) and the findings remain after controlling for the covariates. These results emanate from the low back, whereas pain in the mid back and neck do not seem to be linked with pubertal stage. CONCLUSION: In girls, the reporting of low back pain increases in frequency during puberty until maturity, regardless of age. Why some girls are susceptible to back pain in the early stage of puberty is unknown. BioMed Central 2005-11-01 /pmc/articles/PMC1291369/ /pubmed/16262898 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-6-52 Text en Copyright © 2005 Wedderkopp et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Bo Andersen, Lars
Froberg, Karsten
Leboeuf-Yde, Charlotte
Back pain reporting in young girls appears to be puberty-related
title Back pain reporting in young girls appears to be puberty-related
title_full Back pain reporting in young girls appears to be puberty-related
title_fullStr Back pain reporting in young girls appears to be puberty-related
title_full_unstemmed Back pain reporting in young girls appears to be puberty-related
title_short Back pain reporting in young girls appears to be puberty-related
title_sort back pain reporting in young girls appears to be puberty-related
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1291369/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16262898
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-6-52
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