Acute Prolapsed Lumbar Intervertebral Disc An Epidemiologic Study with Special Reference to Driving Automobiles and Cigarette Smoking

Kelsey, Jennifer L.; Githens, Penny B.; O'Conner, T; WEIL, ULRICH H.; Calogero, John A.; Holford, Theodore R.; White, Augustus A.; Sd, Walter; Ostfeld, Adrian M.; Southwick, Wayne O.

doi:10.1097/00007632-198409000-00012

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“…This finding is coherent with those of other studies (6,14,21,27). No obvious explanation has been found for this association, and it is not certain that tobacco consumption plays a causal role.…”

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Low-back pain in commercial travelers.

Pietri¹,

Leclerc²,

Boitel³

et al. 1992

Scand J Work Environ Health

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Low-back pain in commercial tra velers. Scand J Work Environ Health 1992;18:52-8. The role of occupation al environment in the occurrence of low-back pain was analyzed for 1719 commercial tra velers (1376 men and 343 women). At the beginning of the study (To)the group was interviewed to determine current lifestyle and occupat ional factors associated with low-back pain during the previous 12 months. Twelve month s later (at T 1 ) , a subsample of 1118 persons (893 men, 225 women) was reinterviewed to study the association between the incidence of low-back pain during the year of follow-up and the risk factors at To. At To low-back pain was significantly related with time spent driving a car at work, comfort of the car seat, carrying loads during work, standing for long periods at work, smoking, and psychosomatic factor s. At T 1 driving 10 h/week or more, seat comfort, and psychosomatic factors were associated with first occurrence of low-back pain .

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“…Other factors such as edu cational level or tobacco consumption have been studied and will be discussed later. Most of the etiologic factors have been studied in the work environment, and the most consistent results are related to the lifting of heavy loads (7,8,(15)(16)(17)(18)(19), and the driving of motor vehicles (8,(19)(20)(21) …”

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Low-back pain in commercial travelers.

Pietri¹,

Leclerc²,

Boitel³

et al. 1992

Scand J Work Environ Health

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“…It is surprising that the multivariate analyses did not identify a significant association between smoking and disability following any of the back disorders or carpal tunnel syndrome, given the substantial literature associating smoking with the incidence (though not necessarily the development of disability) of these conditions [Frymoyer et al, 1980;Svensson et al, 1983;Kelsey et al, 1984;Owen and Damron, 1984;Biering-Sørensen and Thomsen, 1986;Saraste and Hultman, 1987;Battié et al, 1989;Deyo and Bass, 1989;Vessey et al, 1990;Heliövarra et al, 1991;Tsai et al, 1992;Boshuizen et al, 1993;O'Connor and Marlowe, 1993;Reynolds et al, 1994;Finkelstein, 1995;Nathan et al, 1996;Tanaka et al, 1997]. Perhaps there are many more causal pathways and mediating factors for back disorders that dilute the effect of smoking.…”

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The effect of cigarette smoking on musculoskeletal‐related disability

Lincoln

Smith

Amoroso

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American J Industrial Med

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“…Other genetically influenced factors may be body habitus and physical characteristics [13], whereas non-genetically influenced and therefore confounding risk factors in this clinical report may be smoking [8] (patient 1) and performing a physically demanding job [2] (patient 1 and 2), as these are risk factors at least in lumbar disc herniation. Finally, we cannot exclude the possibility that the occurrence of a symptomatic thoracic disc herniation at the exact same level and early age in these brothers was merely coincidental, given the high prevalence (37%) of thoracic disc herniations in asymptomatic individuals [21].…”

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