Response to: 'Overweight/obesity and vitamin D deficiency contribute to the global burden of low back pain' by Professor Grant

Affiliations

¹ University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland, Australia Public Health Division, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Noumea, New Caledonia.
² Institute of Bone and Joint Research, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia.
³ University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
⁴ Concord Clinical School, University of Sydney, Concord West, Australia.
⁵ Department of Rheumatology, Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro, UK.
⁶ Department of Rheumatology, University of Sydney, St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia.
⁷ Monash Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Cabrini Institute and Monash University, Mebourne, Victoria, Australia Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Victoria, Australia.

Comment

Damian Hoy et al. Ann Rheum Dis. 2014 Aug.

. 2014 Aug;73(8):e49.

doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2014-205633. Epub 2014 Apr 24.

¹ University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland, Australia Public Health Division, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Noumea, New Caledonia.
² Institute of Bone and Joint Research, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia.
³ University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
⁴ Concord Clinical School, University of Sydney, Concord West, Australia.
⁵ Department of Rheumatology, Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro, UK.
⁶ Department of Rheumatology, University of Sydney, St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia.
⁷ Monash Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Cabrini Institute and Monash University, Mebourne, Victoria, Australia Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Victoria, Australia.

No abstract available

Keywords: Epidemiology; Low Back Pain; Outcomes research.

Comment on

The global burden of low back pain: estimates from the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study.
Hoy D, March L, Brooks P, Blyth F, Woolf A, Bain C, Williams G, Smith E, Vos T, Barendregt J, Murray C, Burstein R, Buchbinder R. Hoy D, et al. Ann Rheum Dis. 2014 Jun;73(6):968-74. doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2013-204428. Epub 2014 Mar 24. Ann Rheum Dis. 2014. PMID: 24665116
Overweight/obesity and vitamin D deficiency contribute to the global burden of low back pain.
Grant WB. Grant WB. Ann Rheum Dis. 2014 Aug;73(8):e48. doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2014-205632. Epub 2014 Apr 12. Ann Rheum Dis. 2014. PMID: 24728330 No abstract available.