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Nicotine dependence and the International Association for the Study of Pain neuropathic pain grade in patients with chronic low back pain and radicular pain: is there an association?

BACKGROUND: This study investigated whether current smoking and a higher nicotine dependency were associated with chronic low back pain (LBP), lumbar related leg pain (sciatica) and/or radicular neuropathic pain. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 150 patients (mean age, 60.1 ± 13.1 y...

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Autores principales: Schembri, Emanuel, Massalha, Victoria, Spiteri, Karl, Camilleri, Liberato, Lungaro-Mifsud, Stephen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Pain Society 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7532299/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32989201
http://dx.doi.org/10.3344/kjp.2020.33.4.359