Abstracts tagged "chronic low back pain and cross-sectional studies"

Abstract Number: 2264 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015

Prevalence and Social Burden of Active Chronic Low Back Pain in the Adult Portuguese Population – Results from a National Survey

Nelia Gouveia^1,2, Ana M. Rodrigues^1,3,4,5, Monica Eusebio⁶, Pedro Machado^1,7,8, Sofia Ramiro^1,5,9, Helena Canhao^1,10,11 and Jaime C Branco^1,5,12,13, ¹EpiReumaPt Study Group, Lisbon, Portugal, ²CEDOC - Chronic Diseases FCM NOVA, NOVA Medical School - Faculdade Ciências Médicas da UNL, Lisbon, Portugal, ³Rheumatology Research Unit, Instituto de Medicina Molecular and Rheumatology and Bone Metabolic Diseases Department, Hospital de Santa Maria, Lisbon, Portugal, ⁴Faculdade de Medicina a Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, ⁵CEDOC - Chronic Diseases FCM NOVA, NOVA Medical School - Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da UNL, Lisbon, Portugal, ⁶Portuguese Society of Rheumatology, Lisbon, Portugal, ⁷University College London - MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases,, London, United Kingdom, ⁸Clínica Universitária de Reumatologia, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, ⁹Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ¹⁰Rheumatology Research Unit, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon, Portugal on behalf of the Rheumatic Diseases Portugal Register, Lisbon, Portugal, ¹¹Hospital Santa Maria - Serviço de Reumatologia, Lisboa, Portugal, ¹²Serviço de Reumatologia do Hospital Egas Moniz, Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Ocidental (CHLO- E.P.E.), lisbon, Portugal, ¹³NOVA Medical School/faculdade de ciências médicas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal