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ArticleBMC musculoskeletal disorders2023

Body height and spinal pain in adolescence: a cohort study from the Danish National Birth Cohort.

Anne Cathrine Falch-Joergensen, Per Kragh Andersen, Esben Budtz-Jorgensen, Lise Hestbaek, Katrine Strandberg-Larsen, Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen

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Article in BMC musculoskeletal disorders, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Anne Cathrine Falch-JoergensenSection of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Science, University of Copenhagen, Oster Farimagsgade 5, Box 2099, Copenhagen K, DK-1014, Denmark. acjo@sund.ku.dk.
Per Kragh AndersenSection of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen K, Denmark.
Esben Budtz-JorgensenSection of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen K, Denmark.
Lise HestbaekDepartment of Sport Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
Katrine Strandberg-LarsenSection of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Science, University of Copenhagen, Oster Farimagsgade 5, Box 2099, Copenhagen K, DK-1014, Denmark.
Anne-Marie Nybo AndersenSection of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Science, University of Copenhagen, Oster Farimagsgade 5, Box 2099, Copenhagen K, DK-1014, Denmark.
University of Copenhagen · DKUniversity of Southern Denmark · DK

Funding

EUCAN-connect (European Commission, Grant Agreement No 824989).The Danish Council for Independent Research (DFF-7016-00344)
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesTo investigate how body height and trajectories of height from infancy through childhood and adolescence were associated with spinal pain in pre- and late adolescence.

methodsThis prospective study included 43,765 individuals born into The Danish National Birth Cohort (DNBC) from 1996 to 2003. DNBC-data were linked with health and social data identified from Statistics Denmark registers. Spinal pain was self-reported in both the 11-year- and 18-year follow-up of DNBC and classified according to severity. Body height was measured from birth and onwards and further modelled as distinct developmental height trajectories by using latent growth curve modelling. Associations were estimated by using multinomial logistic regression models.

resultsTaller body height in childhood and adolescence was associated with approximately 20% increased likelihood of spinal pain in pre- and late adolescence among girls compared to their peers in the normal height group. For boys, taller body height was associated with spinal pain by late adolescence only. Spinal pain in pre-adolescence almost doubled the likelihood of spinal pain in late adolescence regardless of body height at age 18. Height trajectories confirmed the relationship for girls with the tall individuals being most likely to have spinal pain in both pre- and late adolescence.

conclusionTall body height during childhood and adolescence predisposes to spinal pain among girls in both pre-and late adolescence, and among boys in late adolescence. Body height is a contributing factor to the pathogenesis of spinal pain in adolescence; however, the mechanisms may be related to growth velocity, but for now uncertain.

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Birth CohortBody HeightAdolescentBody Mass IndexCohort StudiesDenmarkFemaleHumansMalePainProspective StudiesAdolescenceBack painBody heightEpidemiologyGrowthSpinal pain

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