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Association of chronic spinal pain with diet quality.
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- Association of chronic pain with incidence and progression of cardiometabolic multimorbidity in middle-aged and older populations: a multicohort study.Pain reports · 2025Article
- Diet and risk of low back pain: a Mendelian randomization analysis.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2024Article
- Association of Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy with Diet Quality Among Post-Treatment Cancer Survivors.Nutrition and cancer · 2024Article
- Non-spinal low back pain: Global epidemiology, trends, and risk factors.Health science reports · 2023Article
- The Importance of Nutrition as a Lifestyle Factor in Chronic Pain Management: A Narrative Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
- Non-Specific Low Back Pain, Dietary Salt Intake, and Posterior Lumbar Subcutaneous Edema.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Major dietary patterns in relation to chronic low back pain; a cross-sectional study from RaNCD cohort.Nutrition journal · 2022Article
- Spinal pain increases the risk of becoming overweight in Danish schoolchildren.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
introductionChronic spinal pain is disabling and has high personal and societal costs. Risk factors include behavioral factors; however, little is known about the role of diet quality and its association with spinal pain. Higher diet quality and consumption of macronutrients that drive higher diet quality were hypothesized to be associated with lower odds of having spinal pain.
methodsAn analysis of a population-based data set (NHANES cycle 2009-2010) was conducted. Diet quality was calculated using the Healthy Eating Index 2015 (score 0-100). To examine odds of pain related to dietary intake, generalized linear regressions were used adjusting for relevant covariates.
resultsOf 4123 participants (mean age 43.5 ± 0.44 [SD], 2167 [52.6%] female), 800 (19.4%) reported chronic spinal pain. People with chronic spinal pain consumed similar amounts of calories to those with no spinal pain (2137 ± 44.5 vs 2159.9 ± 27.7), but had significantly poorer diet quality compared to people without spinal pain (51.97 ± 0.65 vs 54.31 ± 0.39,
conclusionAlthough causality cannot be assumed, this study supports continued investigation into the role of nutritional quality as a factor that may impact pain.
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