Year: 2024 | Month: February | Volume: 11 | Issue: 2 | Pages: 337-339
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20240236
Overweight BMI as a Risk Factor for Low Back Pain: An Observational Study from Primary Health Care
Jessica Amelinda Mintarjo
Internship Doctor, Purwodadi Public Health Care, Purwodadi, East Java, Indonesia
ABSTRACT
Background: Overweight is the most common cause of low back pain (LBP). The prevalence of LBP is very gender- and age-specific. Overweight BMI might lead to an increased axial load of the L4–L5 disc and facet joints, and enhance the risk of degenerative that cause LBP.
Method: This is a cross-sectional study to analyze the BMI as a risk factor for LBP.
Results: There were 59 patients (81.9%) with normal BMI 13 patients (18.1%) with overweight BMI, 39 patients with LBP (54.2%), and 33 patients (45.8%) without LBP. The chi-square test results obtained a significance value of 0.015 (p <0.05) with the odds ratio 6.089.
Discussion: This study is in agreement with other studies which revealed that higher BMI was significantly associated with LBP in men (for overweight, odds ratio = 1.097, P < 0.001; for obesity, odds ratio = 1.163, P < 0.001) and in women (for overweight, odds ratio = 1.174, P < 0.001; for obesity, odds ratio = 1.211, P < 0.001).
Conclusion: Overweight BMI is a risk factor for LBP. Patients who had overweight BMI had a greater 6.089 times risk of LBP than patients who had normal BMI.
Keywords: Low back pain, Overweight BMI, Cross-sectional study
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