Fuentes-Alonso, MartaLópez-de-Andrés, AnaPalacios-Ceña, DomingoJimenez-Garcia, RodrigoLopez-Herranz, MartaHernandez-Barrera, ValentinPerez-Farinos, NapoleonJi, Zichende-Miguel-Diez, Javier2025-01-072025-01-072020-11-021178-7090https://hdl.handle.net/10668/26779We aimed to assess whether patients suffering from COPD have a higher prevalence of chronic back pain (neck and low back pain) than age-, sex-, and residence-matched non-COPD controls. We also aimed to identify which variables are associated with chronic neck pain (CNP) and chronic low back pain (CLBP) among COPD patients. We carried out a retrospective case-control study using data obtained from the Spanish National Health Survey conducted in 2017. We analyzed data from 1034 COPD and 1034 matched non-COPD controls. The prevalence of CNP and CLBP was 38.20% and 45.16%, respectively, among COPD patients and 22.82% and 28.34% for non-COPD controls, respectively (p The prevalence of CNP and CLBP was significantly higher among COPD patients than among non-COPD controls after adjusting for age, sex and other relevant clinical variables. Our findings add new data to the knowledge of chronic pain in COPD patients.enAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/COPDcomorbiditieslow back painneck painpain medicationresearch article33173326open access10.2147/JPR.S271713PMC7646454https://www.dovepress.com/getfile.php?fileID=63282https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7646454/pdf