Assessment of the Hormonal and Reproductive Factors in Reproductive Age Female Patients Suffering from Low Back Pain
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Hormonal factors, Reproductive factorsAbstract
Background: Low back pain related disability and work absence accounts for high economical costs in modern society. A prevalence of 28-80% has been found with increase of prevalence with age and female preponderance.
Methods: The present study was conducted on 250 non pregnant women complaining of low back pain attending Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Krishna Mohan Medical College & Hospital during the period of one year. A brief questionnaire was used to screen, among the respondents, the occurrence of low back pain in the past year.
Results: Low back pain was associated with high BMI, high waist circumference, a greater number of children, irregular and prolonged duration of menstruation, young maternal age at first birth and with history of abortion.
Conclusions: Hormonal and reproductive factors are associated with low back pain.
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