Sex differences in lifetime prevalence of low back pain: A multinational study of opposite‐sex twin pairs.

Autor: Calais‐Ferreira, Lucas, Pozzobon, Daniel, Pinheiro, Marina B., Blyth, Fiona M., Ordoñana, Juan R., Duncan, Glen E., Hopper, John L., Ferreira, Paulo H., Ferreira, Manuela L.
Zdroj: European Journal of Pain; Nov2023, Vol. 27 Issue 10, p1150-1160, 11p
Abstrakt: Background: Low back pain (LBP) is more likely to occur in people with a family history of this condition, highlighting the importance of accounting for familial factors when studying the individual risk of LBP. We conducted a study of opposite‐sex twin pairs investigating sex differences in LBP while accounting for (genetic and shared environmental) familial factors. Methods: We applied a matched co‐twin control design to study 795 adult opposite‐sex pairs from Australia, Spain, and the United States (US). We used mixed‐effects logistic regression to assess the within‐pair association between female sex and lifetime prevalence of LBP in unadjusted and adjusted models for body‐mass‐index, and depression, as well as interactions between female sex and age (
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