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Table 4 Long-term patterns of reporting LBP

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

 

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%

  1. 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)