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

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

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

Methods

This 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.

Results

Taller body heig

SUBMITTER: Falch-Joergensen AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10712045 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature