Back pain in adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis: epidemiological study for 43,630 pupils in Niigata City, Japan

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Published online 2010 Dec 17. doi: 10.1007/s00586-010-1657-6

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Table 2

Point and lifetime prevalence of back pain and their association with scoliosis

	Scoliosis group		No scoliosis group		Gender- and school-grade-adjusted
	N = 51		N = 32,083		OR	(95% CI)	P value
	No.	%	No.	%	OR	(95% CI)	P value
Point prevalence of back pain	14	27.5	3,596	11.4^a	2.29	(1.23, 4.29)	0.009
Lifetime prevalence of back pain	30	58.8	10,561	32.9	2.10	(1.18, 3.72)	0.012

OR odds ratio of back pain according to scoliosis, CI confidence interval

^aCalculated for 31,581 pupils excluding 502 non-respondents