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Personal factors associated with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS): a case-control study
BACKGROUND: Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is one of the most common nerve entrapments in the upper limb. In Saudi Arabia, few studies have investigated CTS in the general population. This study aimed to determine the association between personal factors and CTS. METHODS: A case-control study involved...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8690538/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34930200 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-021-04941-y |
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author | Al Shahrani, Eman Al Shahrani, Abeer Al-Maflehi, Nassr |
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description | BACKGROUND: Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is one of the most common nerve entrapments in the upper limb. In Saudi Arabia, few studies have investigated CTS in the general population. This study aimed to determine the association between personal factors and CTS. METHODS: A case-control study involved adults aged 18 and above. Cases were recruited from electrophysiology lab records as consecutive case series, while controls were individuals who were free of CTS symptoms according to the Boston Carpal Tunnel Questionnaire (BCTQ). The electronic medical records of participants were reviewed to obtain age, height, weight, medical conditions, and mobile numbers. Cases and controls were contacted via phone to complete a questionnaire that was designed based on previous literature. We used multivariate binary logistic regression to identify the personal factors significantly associated with CTS. RESULTS: A total of 95 cases and 190 controls were included. Most of the participants were female (84.2%) and Saudi (93%). Most of cases were above 45 years of age (73.7%), while 84.7% were 45 year – old or younger among the control group. Stratified logistic regression showed that performance of household chores was significantly associated with CTS. While physical exercise associated with decreased odds of CTS. CONCLUSIONS: This study adds to the body of evidence on personal factors associated with CTS. However, the degree of differences in the age structure of the cases compared with the controls suggest that there is a considerable potential for residual confounding affecting the results. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: Not applicable. |
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spelling | pubmed-86905382021-12-21 Personal factors associated with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS): a case-control study Al Shahrani, Eman Al Shahrani, Abeer Al-Maflehi, Nassr BMC Musculoskelet Disord Research BACKGROUND: Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is one of the most common nerve entrapments in the upper limb. In Saudi Arabia, few studies have investigated CTS in the general population. This study aimed to determine the association between personal factors and CTS. METHODS: A case-control study involved adults aged 18 and above. Cases were recruited from electrophysiology lab records as consecutive case series, while controls were individuals who were free of CTS symptoms according to the Boston Carpal Tunnel Questionnaire (BCTQ). The electronic medical records of participants were reviewed to obtain age, height, weight, medical conditions, and mobile numbers. Cases and controls were contacted via phone to complete a questionnaire that was designed based on previous literature. We used multivariate binary logistic regression to identify the personal factors significantly associated with CTS. RESULTS: A total of 95 cases and 190 controls were included. Most of the participants were female (84.2%) and Saudi (93%). Most of cases were above 45 years of age (73.7%), while 84.7% were 45 year – old or younger among the control group. Stratified logistic regression showed that performance of household chores was significantly associated with CTS. While physical exercise associated with decreased odds of CTS. CONCLUSIONS: This study adds to the body of evidence on personal factors associated with CTS. However, the degree of differences in the age structure of the cases compared with the controls suggest that there is a considerable potential for residual confounding affecting the results. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: Not applicable. BioMed Central 2021-12-20 /pmc/articles/PMC8690538/ /pubmed/34930200 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-021-04941-y Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Al Shahrani, Eman Al Shahrani, Abeer Al-Maflehi, Nassr Personal factors associated with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS): a case-control study |
title | Personal factors associated with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS): a case-control study |
title_full | Personal factors associated with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS): a case-control study |
title_fullStr | Personal factors associated with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS): a case-control study |
title_full_unstemmed | Personal factors associated with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS): a case-control study |
title_short | Personal factors associated with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS): a case-control study |
title_sort | personal factors associated with carpal tunnel syndrome (cts): a case-control study |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8690538/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34930200 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-021-04941-y |
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