Smoking Tied to Back Pain, Arthritis

Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN, Nurse PlannerTake PosttestAbrar Qureshi, MD, and colleagues from Harvard University in Boston.In the second study, smokers had earlier onset of inflammatory back pain, with a regression coefficient β of −1.46 (P=0.04) and worse disease activity (β = 0.20, P=0.03), reported Maxime Dougados, MD, of Paris-Descartes University in Paris, and colleagues."Taken

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