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 5 Association between leisure physical activity and long duration troublesome neck pain in cohort II^a

	All 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 (ref)	128/888	1	1	57/492	1	1	71/459	1	1
Moderate	357/2 690	0.9 (0.7–1.1)	1.0 (0.8–1.3)	147/1 061	1.0 (0.8–1.4)	1.2 (0.8–1.7)	210/1 629	0.8 (0.6–1.1)	0.9 (0.6–1.2)
Moderate, regular or High regular	268/2 421	0.8 (0.6–1.0)	0.9 (0.7–1.1)	92/1 075	0.6 (0.5–0.9)	0.8 (0.5–1.1)	176/1 346	0.8 (0.6–1.1)	0.9 (0.7–1.2)

Association in cohort II (prognostic cohort), presented with odds ratios (ORs) and 95 % confidence intervals (95 % CI)
^aCohort II: Prognostic cohort including individuals with occasional neck pain at baseline
^bAdjusted for age and immigration status
^cAdjusted for age, immigrant status, work over shoulder level and computer work
^dAdjusted for age, smoking and immigrant status

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