Knee Pain and Low Back Pain Additively Disturb Sleep in the General Population: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Nagahama Study.

Association of knee and low back pain with sleep disturbance is poorly understood. We aimed to clarify the independent and combined effects of these orthopedic symptoms on sleep in a large-scale general population.Cross-sectional data about sleep and knee/low back pain were collected for 9,611 commu...

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Main Authors: Kimihiko Murase, Yasuharu Tabara, Hiromu Ito, Masahiko Kobayashi, Yoshimitsu Takahashi, Kazuya Setoh, Takahisa Kawaguchi, Shigeo Muro, Hiroshi Kadotani, Shinji Kosugi, Akihiro Sekine, Ryo Yamada, Takeo Nakayama, Michiaki Mishima, Shuichi Matsuda, Fumihiko Matsuda, Kazuo Chin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4622045?pdf=render