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Is vitamin D supplementation effective for low back pain? A systematic review and meta-analysis
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Low back pain (LBP) is the leading cause of years lived with disability worldwide. Current intervention strategies are failing to reduce the enormous global burden of LBP and are prompting researchers to investigate alternative management strategies, such as vitamin D supplementation. Vitamin D supplementation appears to down regulate pro-inflammatory cytokines which lead to pain and up regulate anti-inflammatory cytokines that reduce inflammation. These mechanisms might explain the increasin...
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- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians
- Journal:
- Pain Physician More from this journal
- Volume:
- 21
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 121-145
- Publication date:
- 2018-03-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-05-09
- EISSN:
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2150-1149
- ISSN:
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1533-3159
- Pmid:
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29565945
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English
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pubs:831424
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831424
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2018-07-19
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- Copyright date:
- 2018
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- This is an Open Access article published under a Creative Commons license, see: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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