Does a healthy lifestyle behaviour influence the prognosis of low back pain among men and women in a general population? A population-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To study the influence of healthy lifestyle behaviour on the prognosis of occasional low back pain among men and women in a general population.

Design

Cohort study with a 4-year follow-up.

Settings

General population in Stockholm County, Sweden.

Participants

The study sample comprised 3938 men and 5056 women aged 18-84 from the Stockholm Public Health Cohort reporting occasional low back pain in the baseline questionnaire 2006.

Measures

Lifestyle factors and potential confounders were assessed at baseline. The lifestyle factors smoking habits, alcohol consumption, leisure physical activity and consumption of fruit and vegetables were dichotomised using recommendations for a health-enhancing lifestyle and combined to form the exposure variable

SUBMITTER: Bohman T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4281558 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature