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H. Susan J. Picavet

Researcher at Centre for Health Protection

Publications -  82
Citations -  5054

H. Susan J. Picavet is an academic researcher from Centre for Health Protection. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 29, co-authored 64 publications receiving 4139 citations. Previous affiliations of H. Susan J. Picavet include Medisch Spectrum Twente.

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Pain Catastrophizing and Kinesiophobia: Predictors of Chronic Low Back Pain

TL;DR: Using a population-based cohort of the general Dutch population, the authors studied whether an excessively negative orientation toward pain (pain catastrophizing) and fear of movement/(re)injury (kinesiophobia) are important in the etiology of chronic low back pain and associated disability.
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Prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders is systematically higher in women than in men.

TL;DR: It is shown that women have higher prevalence rates of musculoskeletal pain in most anatomic pain sites, no matter the duration of musculean pain.
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Physical activity and low back pain: A U-shaped relation?

TL;DR: There is some evidence that the relation between physical activity and CLBP is U‐shaped, and physical activity was not associated with chronic low back pain when studied by the dimension of activity, by the intensity or by the duration of physical activity.
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Time Trends in Prevalence of Chronic Diseases and Multimorbidity Not Only due to Aging: Data from General Practices and Health Surveys.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the time trend in the prevalence of chronic diseases and multimorbidity over the period 2001 till 2011 in the Netherlands, and the extent to which this can be ascribed to the aging of the population.