Oral contraceptives and back pain in women in a Swedish community

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 71-74

  Wreje, Ullacarin ^a   Isacsson, Dag ^b   Åberg, Hans ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cohort studies; Low back pain; Oral contraceptives

Indexed keywords

HORMONE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILDBIRTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; ORAL CONTRACEPTION; PREGNANCY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; SCHOOL CHILD; SWEDEN;

CONTRACEPTION; CONTRACEPTIVE METHODS--SIDE EFFECTS; CORRELATION STUDIES; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DISEASES; EUROPE; EVALUATION; FAMILY PLANNING; NORTHERN EUROPE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES--SIDE EFFECTS; PAIN; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCANDINAVIA; SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS; STATISTICAL STUDIES; STUDIES; SWEDEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOW BACK PAIN; PREGNANCY; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SWEDEN;

EID: 0030942819     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/26.1.71     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. The Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in Health Care. The Problem of Back Pain, Proceedings from a Conference, 1989. Stockholm: SBU, 1989, pp. 16-21.
2. Official Statistics of Sweden. Report 11, 1975. Stockholm: SCB, 1978.
3. Official Statistics of Sweden. Report 42, 1975-1983. Stockholm: SCB, 1985.
4. Official Statistics of Sweden. 1988-89. Report 68, 1988-1989. Örebro: SCB, 1991.
5. Frymoyer J W, Pope M H, Costanza M C, Rosen J C, Goggin J E, Wilder D G. Epidemiologic studies of low-back pain. Spine 1980; 5: 419-23.
6. Saugstad L F. Is persistent pelvic pain and pelvic joint instability associated with early menarche and with oral contraceptives? Eur J Obst Gynecol Reprod Biol 1991; 41: 203-06.
7. Isacsson D. Heavy use of prescription drugs. Pharmacoepidemiological studies in a Swedish community (dissertation), Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Comprehensive summaries of Uppsala dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 124, Uppsala, 1987.
8. Farmaceutiska specialiteter i Sverige (Pharmaceutical specialities in Sweden) (FASS) 1980. Uppsala: Läkernedelsinformation AB, 1980 (in Swedish).
9. Nordic Medico-Statistical Committee (NOMESCO). Code-list for diagnoses used in ambulatory care: based on the International Classification of Diseases. Stockholm: Nomesco, 1976.
10. SAS Institute Inc. SAS procedure guide, version 6, (3rd edn) Cary, North Carolina: SAS Institute Inc. 1990.
11. Ostgaard H C, Andersson G B. Post partum low-back pain. Spine 1992; 17: 53-55.
12. MacLennan A H, Nicholson R, Green R C, Bath M. Serum relaxin and pelvic pain of pregnancy. Lancet 1986; ii: 243-45.
13. Lucas C, Bald L N, Martin M C et al. An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to study human relaxin in human pregnancy and in pregnant rhesus monkeys. J Endocrinol 1989; 120: 449-57.
14. Stewart D R, Celniker A C, Taylor C A, Cragun J R, Overstreet J W, Lasley B L. Relaxin in the periimplantation period. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1990; 70: 1771-73.
15. Eddie L W, Martinez F, Healy D L, Sutton B, Bell R J, Tregear G W. Relaxin in sera during the luteal phase of in vitro fertilization cycles. Br J Obstet Gynaecol 1990; 97: 215-20.
16. Wreje U, Kristiansson P, Aberg H, Bystrom B, v Schoultz B. Relaxin in serum during the menstrual cycle and oral contraceptive use. Gynecol Obstet Invest 1995; 39: 195-98.
17. Symmons D P, van Hemert A M, Vandenbroucke J P, Valkenburg H A. A longitudinal study of back pain and radiological changes in the lumbar spines of middle aged women. I. Clinical findings. Ann Rheum Dis 1991; 50: 158-61.
18. Dillane J B, Fry J, Kalton G. Acute back syndrome - a study from general practice. Br Med J 1966; 2: 82-84.
19. Pope M H, Rosen J C, Wilder D G, Frymoyer J W. The relation between biomechanical and psychological factors in patients with low back pain. Spine 1980; 5: 173-78.