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dc.contributor.author | Schembri, Emanuel | - |
dc.contributor.author | Massalha, Victoria | - |
dc.contributor.author | Spiteri, Karl | - |
dc.contributor.author | Camilleri, Liberato | - |
dc.contributor.author | Lungaro-Mifsud, Stephen | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-10-01T07:56:13Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-10-01T07:56:13Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Schembri, E., Massalha, V., Spiteri, K., Camilleri, L., & Lungaro-Mifsud, S. (2020). Nicotine dependence and the International Association for the Study of Pain neuropathic pain grade in patients with chronic low back pain and radicular pain : is there an association?. The Korean Journal of Pain, 33(4), 359-377. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/60928 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Background: This study investigated whether current smoking and a higher nicotine dependency were associated with chronic low back pain (LBP), lumbar related leg pain (sciatica) and/or radicular neuropathic pain. | en_GB |
dc.description.abstract | Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 150 patients (mean age, 60.1 ± 13.1 yr). Demographic data, the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) neuropathic pain grade, STarT Back tool, and the Fagerström test were com- pleted. A control group (n = 50) was recruited. | en_GB |
dc.description.abstract | Results: There was a significant difference between current smokers and non- smokers in the chronic LBP group in the mean pain score (P = 0.025), total STarT Back score (P = 0.015), worst pain location (P = 0.020), most distal pain radiation (P = 0.042), and in the IASP neuropathic pain grade (P = 0.026). There was a significant difference in the mean Fagerström score between the four IASP neuropathic pain grades (P = 0.005). Current smoking yielded an odds ratio (OR) of 3.071 (P = 0.011) for developing chronic LBP and sciatica, and an OR of 4.028 (P = 0.002) for obtaining an IASP “definite/probable” neuropathic pain grade, for both cohorts. The likelihood for chronic LBP and sciatica increased by 40.9% (P = 0.007), while the likelihood for an IASP neuropathic grade of “definite/probable” increased by 50.8% (P = 0.002), for both cohorts, for every one unit increase in the Fagerström score. | en_GB |
dc.description.abstract | Conclusions: A current smoking status and higher nicotine dependence increase the odds for chronic LBP, sciatica and radicular neuropathic pain. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Korean Pain Society | en_GB |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | Chronic pain | en_GB |
dc.subject | Backache | en_GB |
dc.subject | Neuralgia | en_GB |
dc.subject | Nicotine | en_GB |
dc.subject | Nicotine -- Health aspects | en_GB |
dc.subject | Nicotine -- Physiological effect | en_GB |
dc.subject | Tobacco use -- Health aspects | en_GB |
dc.title | Nicotine dependence and the International Association for the Study of Pain neuropathic pain grade in patients with chronic low back pain and radicular pain : is there an association? | en_GB |
dc.type | article | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder. | en_GB |
dc.description.reviewed | peer-reviewed | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3344/kjp.2020.33.4.359 | - |
dc.publication.title | The Korean Journal of Pain | en_GB |
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