ArticleFrontiers in nutrition2023
Dried fruit intake causally protects against low back pain: A Mendelian randomization study.
Article in Frontiers in nutrition, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Associations between lifestyle-related risk factors and back pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis of Mendelian randomization studies.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2024Pooled it
- Chronic low back pain causal risk factors identified by Mendelian randomization: a cross-sectional cohort analysis.The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society · 2025Observational
- Health associations of various fruit forms: solid fruits, juices, and smoothies.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Chronic Low Back Pain Causal Risk Factors Identified by Mendelian Randomization: a Cross-Sectional Cohort Analysis.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
- Diet and risk of low back pain: a Mendelian randomization analysis.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2024Article
- Causal relationship between diet and knee osteoarthritis: A Mendelian randomization analysis.PloS one · 2024Article
- Causal Associations between Dietary Habits and Chronic Pain: A Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization Study.Nutrients · 2023Article
- Gut microbiota and intervertebral disc degeneration: a bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomization study.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2023Article
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Abstract
Background: Low back pain is the leading cause of years lived with disability worldwide. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether dried fruit intake causally protects against low back pain using two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR). Methods: We obtained summary-level data for dried fruit intake ( Results: In the univariable MR analysis, the inverse variance weighted estimate showed that greater dried fruit intake was associated with decreased risk of low back pain [odds ratio (OR) = 0.435, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.287-0.659, Conclusion: This MR study provides evidence to support that dried fruit intake causally protects against low back pain.
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