Individual courses of low back pain in adult Danes: a cohort study with 4-year and 8-year follow-up

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BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 2017; 18: 28.

Published online 2017 Jan 21. doi: 10.1186/s12891-016-1377-0

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Table 4

Long-term patterns of reporting LBP

	Consistency in LBP categories at the ages 41–45–49
LBP	Each time	Sometimes	Never
none	11%	45%	44%
‘year’	44%	45%	11%
‘month’	17%	54%	29%
‘>30 days’	8%	32%	60%
‘seeking care’	11%	44%	45%
‘non-trivial’	6%	27%	67%

The percentage of individuals reporting LBP in various patterns: ‘Each time’ refers to the percentage of people reporting a specific category of LBP at all time points; ‘Sometimes’: the percentage of people with changing status over time; ‘Never’: those people never reporting this type of LBP (N = 293 participating at all three time points)