The American Journal of Medicine
Volume 123, Issue 1 , Pages 87.e7-87.e35 , January 2010

The Association between Smoking and Low Back Pain: A Meta-analysis

  • Rahman Shiri, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Centre of Expertise for Health and Work Ability, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland
    • Corresponding Author InformationRequests for reprints should be addressed to Rahman Shiri, MD, PhD, Centre of Expertise for Health and Work Ability, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Topeliuksenkatu 41 a A, Helsinki FIN-00250, Finland
    • ,
  • Jaro Karppinen, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Centre of Expertise for Health and Work Ability, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland
    • Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
    • ,
  • Päivi Leino-Arjas, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Centre of Expertise for Health and Work Ability, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland
    • ,
  • Svetlana Solovieva, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Centre of Expertise for Health and Work Ability, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland
    • ,
  • Eira Viikari-Juntura, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Centre of Expertise for Health and Work Ability, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland

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 Conflict of Interest: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

 Authorship: All authors had a role in writing the manuscript. All authors contributed to the design of the review, as well as interpretation of the findings and preparing the report. R. Shiri and S. Solovieva carried out the MEDLINE searches. R. Shiri carried out the EMBASE searches. All authors assessed the quality of the studies. R. Shiri carried out the meta-analyses and drafted the manuscript. All authors critically revised the manuscript and approved the final version for submission.

PII: S0002-9343(09)00713-X

doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2009.05.028

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