作者
Damian Hoy, Christopher Bain, Gail Williams, Lyn March, Peter Brooks, Fiona Blyth, Anthony Woolf, Theo Vos, Rachelle Buchbinder
发表日期
2012/6
来源
Arthritis & rheumatism
卷号
64
期号
6
页码范围
2028-2037
出版商
Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
简介
Objective
To perform a systematic review of the global prevalence of low back pain, and to examine the influence that case definition, prevalence period, and other variables have on prevalence.
Methods
We conduced a new systematic review of the global prevalence of low back pain that included general population studies published between 1980 and 2009. A total of 165 studies from 54 countries were identified. Of these, 64% had been published since the last comparable review.
Results
Low back pain was shown to be a major problem throughout the world, with the highest prevalence among female individuals and those aged 40–80 years. After adjusting for methodologic variation, the mean ± SEM point prevalence was estimated to be 11.9 ± 2.0%, and the 1‐month prevalence was estimated to be 23.2 ± 2.9%.
Conclusion
As the population ages, the global number of individuals with low back pain is …
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