A subtle threat to urban populations in developing countries: Low back pain and its related risk factors

Spine

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 618-627

  Noormohammadpour, Pardis ^a,b,c   Mansournia, Mohammad Ali ^a   Asadi Lari, Mohsen ^d   Nourian, Ruhollah ^a,c   Rostami, Mohsen ^e   Kordi, Ramin ^a,b,c  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c Noorafshar Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine Hospital   (Iran)

^d IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

1 year prevalence; Chronic prevalence; Low back pain; Odds ratio; Point prevalence

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEWIFE; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIED PERSON; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SMOKING; THREAT; URBAN AREA; URBAN POPULATION; ADULT; IRAN; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84962097325     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0000000000001269     Document Type: Article

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