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Table 3 Prevalence of additional musculoskeletal conditions in working-age Australiansa with specific musculoskeletal conditions

From: Associations between multimorbidity and additional burden for working-age adults with specific forms of musculoskeletal conditions: a cross-sectional study

Sample (n)

Osteo-arthritis % (95%CI)

Inflammatory arthritis % (95%CI)

Other arthritis % (95%CI)

Other MSK % (95%CI)

Gout % (95%CI)

Back pain % (95%CI)

Soft tissue conditions % (95%CI)

Osteo-porosis % (95%CI)

Additional MSK % (95%CI)

Median # of MSK conditions (10th-90th percentile)

Osteoarthritis (993)

100

3.6 (1.9, 5.4)

6.3 (3.9, 8.6)

2.1 (0.8, 3.3)

7.5 (5.6, 9.4)

33.3 (28. 8, 37.9)

8.4 (5.7, 11.1)

10.7 (8.0, 13.4)

52.1 (48.2, 56.0)

1 (2,3)

Inflammatory arthritis (317)

11.8 (6.5, 17.0)

100

4.6 (1.6, 7.7)

3.3 (1.1, 5.5)

10.2 (6.0, 14.5)

37.3 (29.4, 45.2)

24.7 (17.7, 31.8)

6.2 (3.4, 9.1)

63.2 (54.5, 72.0)

1 (2,3)

Other arthritis (1022)

5.7 (3.7, 7.6)

1.3 (0.4, 2.1)

100

1.6 (0.3, 2.8)

6.3 (4.5, 8.2)

33.3 (29.6, 36.9)

6.1 (4.3, 8.0)

4.9 (3.3, 6.6)

46.3 (42.5, 50.1)

1 (1,3)

Other MSK (117)

18.0 (7.8, 28.3)

8.7 (2.9, 14.5)

14.9 (4.1, 25.6)

100

7.2 (1.9, 12.4)

31.5 (20.4, 42.6)

7.6 (0.5, 14.6)

10.0 (3.2, 16.8)

63.5 (51.7, 75.2)

1 (2,3)

Gout (589)

11.8 (8.6, 14.9)

5.0 (2.7, 7.2)

11.0 (7.8, 14.2)

1.3 (0.2, 2.4)

100

27.4 (22.6, 32.3)

8.1 (5.3, 10.8)

2.8 (1.3, 4.4)

46.3 (40.9, 51.8)

1 (1,3)

Back pain (2493)

12.1 (10.2, 14.0)

4.2 (3.0, 5.3)

13.3 (11.5, 15.1)

1.3 (0.8, 1.9)

6.3 (5.2, 7.5)

100

5.8 (4.5, 7.1)

3.7 (2.7, 4.7)

35.7 (33.0, 38.5)

1 (1,2)

Soft tissue disorder (404)

18.4 (12.6, 24.1)

16.7 (11.7, 21.7)

14.8 (10.7, 19.0)

1.9 (0.1, 3.7)

11.2 (7.6, 14.9)

34.9 (29.0, 40.8)

100

8.6 (4.6, 12.6)

62.4 (56.3, 68.6)

1 (2,4)

Osteoporosis (292)

33.9 (26.6, 41.2)

6.1 (3.1, 9.1)

17.2 (11.2, 23.2)

3.7 (1.2, 6.2)

5.7 (2.7, 8.8)

32.6 (24.7, 40.4)

12.5 (6.9, 18.1)

100

69.1 (62.0, 76.3)

1 (2,4)

Any MSK (4555)

20.1 (18.8, 21.5)

6.2 (5.3, 7.1)

22.2 (20.3, 24.1)

2.3 (1.7, 3.0)

12.8 (11.7, 13.9)

55.5 (53.3, 57.6)

9.2 (7.9, 10.5)

6.3 (5.5, 7.2)

27.4 (25.7, 29.0)

1 (1,2)

  1. legend: aPrevalence estimates take into account survey design by using the jack-knife method to apply the replicant weights generated by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. MSK: musculoskeletal conditions