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Spinal pain Cardiovascular Disease Physical Activity Quality of Life
Design: Prospective Cohort Sample: 1197 primary school students Exposures: Spinal pain reported by parents via SMS weekly for 1.5 years (response rate = 96%), objectively measured physical activity. Outcome: Clustered cardiovascular risk (serum triglycerides, HOMA-IR, total:HDL ratio, and systolic BP). Serum insulin and glucose, BMI categories. Analysis: Generalized estimating equations.
Spinal pain is prospectively associated with cardiovascular risk in girls but not boys (The CHAMPS Study-DK)
Jeffrey J. Hebert, DC, PhD, Claudia Franz, DC, PhD, Heidi Klakk, PhD, Martin Sénéchal, PhD, Neil Manson, MD, Niels Wedderkopp, MD, PhD
(In review)
Clinical messages
- Physical activity is associated with spinal pain in children
- Moderate activity protective?
- Vigorous activity a risk factor?
- Spinal pain is associated with an increase in cardiovascular risk factors in
girls.
- Not only driven by physical activity
- Relation does not hold in boys
- Why?
- Shared (pain and CV disease) genetic/environmental exposures?
- Others?
- Girls with spinal pain may require additional clinical consideration.