COPD is Associated with Higher Prevalence of Back Pain: Results of a Population-Based Case-Control Study, 2017.
Marta Fuentes-AlonsoAna López-de-AndrésDomingo Palacios-CeñaRodrigo Jimenez-GarciaMarta Lopez-HerranzValentín Hernández-BarreraNapoleón Pérez-FarinosZichen JiJavier de-Miguel-DiezPublished in: Journal of pain research (2020)
The prevalence of CNP and CLBP was significantly higher among COPD patients than among non-COPD controls after adjusting for age, sex and other relevant clinical variables. Our findings add new data to the knowledge of chronic pain in COPD patients.