ArticleScientific reports2021
Spinal pain increases the risk of becoming overweight in Danish schoolchildren.
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- Sedentary behavior and neck pain in children and adolescents; a systematic review and meta-analysis.Health promotion perspectives · 2022Pooled it
- Clinimetric Evaluation of the English Version of the Conceptualization of Pain Questionnaire (COPAQ).The Clinical journal of pain · 2026Article
- Adolescents' understanding of pain and their preferences for learning about pain at school: a cross-sectional survey.BMC pediatrics · 2026Article
- Exploring Adolescents' Understanding, Experiences and Beliefs About Pain: A Qualitative Study.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2024Article
- Overweight and obesity as risk factors for chronic low back pain: a new follow-up in the HUNT Study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Time-course effects of exercise intervention on executive function in adolescents with obesity.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Development of the Young Disability Questionnaire (spine) for children with spinal pain: field testing in Danish school children.BMJ open · 2023Article
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Abstract
Spinal pain is common in adolescence, and overweight in children and adolescence is an increasing public health problem globally. Since musculoskeletal pain is a known barrier for physical activity which potentially can lead to overweight, the primary objective of this study was to determine if self-reported lifetime spinal pain in 2010 was associated with being overweight or obese in 2012 in a cohort of 1080 normal-weighted Danish children, aged 11-13 years at baseline. Overweight was based on body mass index measured by trained staff. Spinal pain was self-reported by questionnaires during school hours. Estimates were adjusted for relevant covariates. The 2-year incidence rate of overweight was 5.3% (95% CI 3.98-7.58) for children with spinal pain at baseline versus 1.6% (95% CI 0.19-5.45) for children without. There was stepwise and statistically significant increased risk of overweight with increasing frequency of pain and for having pain in more than one part of the spine. Despite the short follow-up time where only 40 children developed overweight, these results indicate that spinal pain might increase the risk of subsequent overweight.
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