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Association of Overweight and Elevation with Chronic Knee and Low Back Pain: A Cross-Sectional Study

It is known that overweight is associated with chronic knee pain (CKP) and chronic low back pain (CLBP). Several risk factors for these conditions have been postulated, including age, sex, overweight, occupation, and socioeconomic factors. In addition, physical environment has been studied as a pote...

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Autores principales: Hamano, Tsuyoshi, Kamada, Masamitsu, Kitayuguchi, Jun, Sundquist, Kristina, Sundquist, Jan, Shiwaku, Kuninori
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Publicado: MDPI 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4025028/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24758895
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph110404417
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author Hamano, Tsuyoshi
Kamada, Masamitsu
Kitayuguchi, Jun
Sundquist, Kristina
Sundquist, Jan
Shiwaku, Kuninori
author_facet Hamano, Tsuyoshi
Kamada, Masamitsu
Kitayuguchi, Jun
Sundquist, Kristina
Sundquist, Jan
Shiwaku, Kuninori
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description It is known that overweight is associated with chronic knee pain (CKP) and chronic low back pain (CLBP). Several risk factors for these conditions have been postulated, including age, sex, overweight, occupation, and socioeconomic factors. In addition, physical environment has been studied as a potential risk factor in recent years. However, the associations of overweight and physical environment with CKP and CLBP remains unclear. The aim of this study conducted in a rural mountainous region was to examine whether overweight individuals living at higher elevations have an increased probability of experiencing CKP and CLBP. In 2009, we conducted a mail survey with a random sample aged between 40 to 79 years. Questionnaires were sent to 6,000 individuals and a total of 4,559 individuals responded to this survey. After excluding the respondents with missing data, we conducted a logistic regression analysis of the data for 3,109 individuals. There was statistically significantly higher adjusted odds ratio (aOR) of CKP for those who were overweight living at low elevation (aOR = 1.90, 95% CI = 1.21–2.98), moderate elevation (aOR = 1.73, 95% CI = 1.05–2.87), and high elevation (aOR = 2.13, 95% CI = 1.31–3.46) than those who were not overweight living at low elevation. However, similar patterns were not observed for CLBP. Our results show that specific overweight–elevation associations were observed for CKP in a rural mountainous region.
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spelling pubmed-40250282014-05-19 Association of Overweight and Elevation with Chronic Knee and Low Back Pain: A Cross-Sectional Study Hamano, Tsuyoshi Kamada, Masamitsu Kitayuguchi, Jun Sundquist, Kristina Sundquist, Jan Shiwaku, Kuninori Int J Environ Res Public Health Article It is known that overweight is associated with chronic knee pain (CKP) and chronic low back pain (CLBP). Several risk factors for these conditions have been postulated, including age, sex, overweight, occupation, and socioeconomic factors. In addition, physical environment has been studied as a potential risk factor in recent years. However, the associations of overweight and physical environment with CKP and CLBP remains unclear. The aim of this study conducted in a rural mountainous region was to examine whether overweight individuals living at higher elevations have an increased probability of experiencing CKP and CLBP. In 2009, we conducted a mail survey with a random sample aged between 40 to 79 years. Questionnaires were sent to 6,000 individuals and a total of 4,559 individuals responded to this survey. After excluding the respondents with missing data, we conducted a logistic regression analysis of the data for 3,109 individuals. There was statistically significantly higher adjusted odds ratio (aOR) of CKP for those who were overweight living at low elevation (aOR = 1.90, 95% CI = 1.21–2.98), moderate elevation (aOR = 1.73, 95% CI = 1.05–2.87), and high elevation (aOR = 2.13, 95% CI = 1.31–3.46) than those who were not overweight living at low elevation. However, similar patterns were not observed for CLBP. Our results show that specific overweight–elevation associations were observed for CKP in a rural mountainous region. MDPI 2014-04-22 2014-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4025028/ /pubmed/24758895 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph110404417 Text en © 2014 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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Sundquist, Kristina
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Association of Overweight and Elevation with Chronic Knee and Low Back Pain: A Cross-Sectional Study
title Association of Overweight and Elevation with Chronic Knee and Low Back Pain: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_full Association of Overweight and Elevation with Chronic Knee and Low Back Pain: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_fullStr Association of Overweight and Elevation with Chronic Knee and Low Back Pain: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_full_unstemmed Association of Overweight and Elevation with Chronic Knee and Low Back Pain: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_short Association of Overweight and Elevation with Chronic Knee and Low Back Pain: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_sort association of overweight and elevation with chronic knee and low back pain: a cross-sectional study
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4025028/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24758895
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph110404417
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