• Eur Spine J · Apr 2020

    Meta Analysis

    ISSLS Prize in Clinical Science 2020. Examining causal effects of body mass index on back pain: a Mendelian randomization study.

    • Elizaveta E Elgaeva, Yakov Tsepilov, Maxim B Freidin, WilliamsFrances M KFMKDepartment of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, School of Life Course Sciences, King's College London, London, UK., Yurii Aulchenko, and Pradeep Suri.
    • Laboratory of Theoretical and Applied Functional Genomics, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia.
    • Eur Spine J. 2020 Apr 1; 29 (4): 686-691.

    PurposeMeasures of body fat accumulation are associated with back pain, but a causal association is unclear. We hypothesized that BMI would have causal effects on back pain. We conducted a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) study to assess the causal effect of body mass index (BMI) on the outcomes of (1) back pain and (2) chronic back pain (duration > 3 months).MethodsWe identified genetic instrumental variables for BMI (n = 60 variants) from a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) conducted by the Genetic Investigation of ANthropometric Traits consortium in individuals of European ancestry (n = 322,154). We conducted GWAS of back pain and chronic back pain (n = 453,860) in a non-overlapping sample of individuals of European ancestry. We used inverse-variance weighted (IVW) meta-analysis as the primary method to estimate causal effects.ResultsThe IVW analysis showed evidence supporting a causal association of BMI on back pain, with a 1-standard deviation (4.65 kg/m2) increase in BMI conferring 1.15 times the odds of back pain (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.06-1.25, p = 0.001]; effects were directionally consistent in secondary analysis and sensitivity analyses. The IVW analysis supported a causal association of BMI on chronic back pain (OR 1.20 per 1 SD deviation increase in BMI [95% CI 1.09-1.32; p = 0.0002]), and effects were directionally consistent in secondary analysis and sensitivity analyses.ConclusionIn this first MR study of BMI and back pain, we found a significant causal effect of BMI on both back pain and chronic back pain. These slides can be retrieved under Electronic Supplementary Material.

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