The impact of work related physical activity and leisure physical activity on the risk and prognosis of neck pain – a population based cohort study on workers

Table 3 Association between leisure physical activity and long duration troublesome neck pain in cohort I^a

	Both sexes OR (95 % CI)			Men OR (95 % CI)			Women OR (95 % CI)
Leisure physical activity	Cases/non- cases	Crude	Adjusted^b	Cases/non-cases	Crude	Adjusted^c	Cases/non-cases	Crude	Adjusted^d
Sedentary (reference category)	37/534	1	1	19/341	1	1	18/193	1	1
Moderate	66/1802	0.5 (0.3–0.8)	0.7 (0.4–1.0)	37/1024	0.6 (0.4–1.1)	0.8 (0.4–1.6)	29/778	0.4 (0.2–0.7)	0.5 (0.2–1.0)
Moderate regular or high regular	69/2131	0.5 (0.3–0.7)	0.6 (0.4–0.9)	34/1317	0.5 (0.3–0.8)	0.6 (0.3–1.2)	35/814	0.5 (0.3–0.8)	0.6 (0.3–1.1)

Association in cohort I (risk cohort), presented with odds ratios (ORs) and 95 % confidence intervals (95 % CI)
^a Cohort I: Risk cohort including individuals with no neck pain at baseline
^bAdjusted for age, alcohol consumption, immigration status, work above shoulder level, work under knee level and computer work
^cAdjusted for age, smoking, immigrant status, psychological distress, working with arms above shoulder level, work underneath knee level and computer work
^dAdjusted for age, alcohol consumption, smoking, individual disposable income, immigrant status, work underneath knee level and computer work

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