Primary care consultation, hospital admission, sick leave and disability pension owing to neck and low back pain: a 12-year prospective cohort study in a rural population

Table 3 Neck and low back health outcomes during follow up according to reported symptoms at survey 1 (N = 1,347).

	Primary care		Hospital admission		Sick leave		Disability pension
	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
No neck or low back pain¹ (n = 269)	14	5.2	0		5	1.9	1	0.4
Previous neck or/and low back pain² (n = 224)	22	9.8	4	1.8	7	3.1	2	0.9
Current neck or/and low back pain³ (n = 836)	174	20.8	21	2.5	61	7.3	36	4.3

¹ No neck or low back problems before the study period.
² Neck or low back problems previously but not during the last year prior to survey 1.
³ Neck or low back problems during the year before survey 1, irrespective of previously or not.

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